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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)
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].