| Method | Etching |
| Artist | Mortimer Luddington Menpes |
| Published | c. 1900 |
| Dimensions | Image and plate 387 x 202 mm, Sheet 442 x 273 mm |
| Notes |
Signed in pencil. A finely etched, dominating view of Merton Old Gate. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860 - 1938) was an Australian-born British artist, author, and printmaker. Born in Adelaide, the son of a property developer, Menpes and his family moved to London in 1875 where he began his formal art training at the Royal College of Art. His contempories include John Hood, Edward John Poynter and James Abbot McNeil Whistler. Quick to establish a reputation for himself, Menpes regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, was elected to the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers in 1881 and became a member of the Society of British Artists in 1885. Menpes went on to produce some of the most comprehensive body of etchings ever completed by a European in the East. He wrote Whistler As I Knew Him in 1904, and illustrated numerous books, including his own War Impressions (1901) and several travel books by his daughter, Dorothy Menpes. Condition: Some creasing to sheet edges. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £400.00 |
| Stock ID | 51921 |