The print is trimmed to the image and mounted on It was mounted on the 'Shell Pattern Mount (N0.168)

Roussel began to work on the composition for 'Summer' as early as 1888, when he etched two smaller monochrome plates of the same title (No.s 4 and 5). The earlier plates were executed in pure etching. For the later one, Roussel also used two of the grounds he perfected for printing in colour. The pose of the model, Hetty Pettigrew, with her opened fan, is the same in both versions. Although this print was "finished" for the exhibition as Goupil's in 1899, Roussel later altered Plate 1. He burnished out two small patched of the fan. The fourth state of Plate 1 was definitely made after the beginning of September 1900, because am impression of the third state in the British Museum is inscribed "State of this plate on Monday Sept, 10th 1900". The many "proofs" of state iv of the Plate 1 were made after the change of the state, probably at the end of 1900.

When this print was offered for sale at Goupil's in July 1899, it was priced as 18 guineas mounted and 25 guineas frames.

Reference: Hausberg 143