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The Menpes Children

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1909.117)
Number: 300
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 68 x 101 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: M. Menpes, 'Whistler as I Knew Him', London, 1904
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 12
Catalogues: K.261; M.257; W.212
Impressions taken from this plate  (12)

CATALOGUES RAISONNÉS

  • Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 (cat. no. 261) 'The Menpes Children'.
  • Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909 (cat. no. 257) 'The Menpes Children'.
  • Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886 (cat. no. 212) 'The Menpes Children'.

EXHIBITIONS 1855- 1905

  • Etchings and Dry-Points by James McNeill Whistler, The Grolier Club, New York, 1904 (cat. no. 221) 'The Menpes Children'.
  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 212) 'The Menpes Children'.

REVIEWS 1855- 1905

  • None.

GENERAL 1903- PRESENT

  • Lochnan, Katharine A., The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1984 , p. 282 (no. 259).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1017).
  • Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904 , frontispiece.