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) | ||
STATE
One state is known.
State 1
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
6: Menpes 1904 A[more].
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 ).