Pompeian Beauty Panels, 7.25" x 28". 1917, 1918, and 1923. Advertising for the 1917 panel noted, "Realizing that we were to produce the most expensive Mary Pickford picture ever offered for general distribution, Miss Pickford began posing [with her canary Billie, which she once noted "laid the egg on my powder puff."] for Ira Hill, the Fifth Avenue photographer, as far back as March 18 [1916.] Only after 70 posings did Miss Pickford say, "This is my favorite photograph." Then the artistic Moschocowitz did the wonderful color work. Now for many months Forbes, the Boston art-lithographer, has been making the engravings, and by Oct. 1st each Panel will have gone through the press nine times. Thus, since Miss Pickford first began her patient posing, six months elapse before the final beautifully wrought Art Panel is ready for the pubic. . . ."
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