A very fine, black, vivid impression, with a light plate tone.

Here are Sloan's notes: "Connoisseurs of Prints is the first of the New York Life plates. It shows an exhibition of prints that were to be auctioned at the old American Art Galleries on 23rd St. Henri [Robert Henri, artist and teacher] talked about making a series of connoisseurs, he was so pleased with this one."

Connoisseurs of Prints became one of the most famous of Sloan's images, and within the world of print collecting, became an icon - it is hard to imagine what else Sloan, or anyone, could have added to this portrait of the portentous and portly perusing prints.