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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)

STATE

One state is known.

State 1

Impression: K2610103
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
Published as the frontispiece of the 'édition de luxe' for Mortimer Menpes, Whistler as I Knew Him, 1904. 6
Two prominent diagonal scratches, touching the hats of the two children at left, are visible on a number impressions, including the example reproduced above, while others have no scratches, and one impression has a single long diagonal scratch at upper centre (see Graphic with a link to impression #K2610102).