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The Menpes Children c.1887 Original etching. Excellent impression printed with delicate brown plate tone. In place as frontispiece in the deluxe edition of the book by Mortimer Menpes Whistler as I knew him (London, 1904),
as first issued. £750 |
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Billingsgate 1859 Original etching. The best known of all of Whistler's etchings,
as published in Etching and Etchers in 1880. A fine example with good, clear line and printed with plate tone. SOLD |
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La Retameuse 1858 Original etching. Very fine impression printed with exceptional clarity on chine appliqué. SOLD |
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Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler with the White Lock, Wearing a Monacle c.1886 Original drypoint by Mortimer L. Menpes. Probably the most famous portrait of Whistler by his friend and admirer, Mortimer Menpes. Excellent signed proof impression, printed by Menpes himself on his own watermarked paper. Rare. SOLD |
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Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Night Study c.1886 Original drypoint by Mortimer L. Menpes. Superb impression of this rare portrait of Whistler by his friend and admirer, Mortimer Menpes. Outstanding signed proof impression, printed by Menpes himself on specially prepared Chine appliqué surfaced paper. This particular drypoint is amongst the most scarce of Menpes’s Whistler portrait plates. SOLD |
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Rotherhithe 1859 Original etching. Superb early impression of this famous etching,
as published in Whistler’s Sixteen Etchings, widely known as the Thames Set.
A particularly striking example with rich black inking and fine clear detail. SOLD |
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The Unsafe Tenement 1858 Original etching. Very fine impression printed with exceptional clarity on chine appliqué. SOLD |
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Fumette’s Bent Head 1859 Original etching and drypoint. Richly inked impression from the cancelled plate. SOLD |
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Savoy Pigeons 1896 Original lithograph. Very good impression, as published for the edition issued by The Studio in 1896 and with their blindstamp in the lower margin of the sheet. SOLD |
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The Smith’s Yard 1895 Original lithograph. Very good impression, as published for the edition issued by The Studio in February 1897 and with their blindstamp in the lower margin of the sheet. SOLD |
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