An original lift-ground etching with hand-coloring, As You’d Been Wont… is one of a series of original prints created by Howard Hodgkin in 1990 to accompany The Way We Live Now, published as a short story written by Susan Sontag in 1986. This gem of an artwork measures 11 11/16 x 16 15/16 in. (29.7 x 43 cm), unframed, is initialed by the artist in pencil, and is numbered, from the edition of 50. It is designated as H.217 in the artist’s catalogue raisonne.