Waiting for the race
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Mortimer Menpes
Britain/Australia
1855 – 1938
Waiting for the race
1883
etching, drypoint, plate tone printed in brown ink on paper
Britain/Australia
1855 – 1938
Waiting for the race
1883
etching, drypoint, plate tone printed in brown ink on paper
- Place made
- France or London
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, plate tone printed in brown ink on paper
- Edition
- later state, brown ink
- State
- ii/ii
- Dimensions
-
14.9 x 21.2 cm (plate)
17.0 x 22.7 cm (sheet) - Credit line
- G. and P. Packer Collection. Gift of H.E. Bowden and M.J.M. Carter AO through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2013
- Accession number
- 20133PP49
- Signature and date
- Signed and dated inscribed in plate printed l.l., "M.L. Menpes '83".
- Provenance
- Artist; Elizabeth Armstrong (c.1880-1912); by descent to Stanhope Forbes Studio (1912-1947); purchased from Book Gallery in Penzance, Cornwall, UK by G&P Packer, Cornwall, UK (Dec 1994-2013).
- Catalogue raisonne
- MM X59; GM 63
- Media category
- Collection area
- British prints
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Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany
Art Gallery of South Australia, 21 December 2018 – 17 June 2019 -
The World of Mortimer Menpes: painter etcher, raconteur
Art Gallery of South Australia, 14 June 2014 – 7 September 2014