The Menpes Children |  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) | ||
The copper plate was owned by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), who printed an edition of 500 in 1904.
The plate has not been located. It was similar in size to several other plates, including two town scenes - Cottage Door [252] and
St James's Park [250]; and small figure studies -
Woman sleeping in a chair [401] and
The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir [365] - dating from about 1887 or 1888. It is also close in size to several etchings that date from 1888, including Market Women: Turkeys [424], Theatre, Loches [418], and Hôtel de la Promenade, Loches [415].