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Details
- Other Titles
- Three Fair ladies
Geisha girls - Date
- 1884-1885
- Media category
- Materials used
- drypoint
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 17.0 cm platemark; 23.3 x 17.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., [incised plate] "Mortimer Menpes". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 195.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Mortimer L Menpes
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About
This etching is the first known Menpes print to depict a Japanese subject.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
Fin de Siècle: posters prints drawings from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jan 1994–13 Mar 1994
Mortimer Menpes, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 06 Jun 2014–28 Sep 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Renée Free, Fin de Siècle, Sydney, Jan 1994.
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, 1, 10.
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Gary Morgan, The etched works of Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938). Volume I: the early years, 1855-1900, with a biography of the artist, Adelaide, 2012, 133. catalogue raisonne no. 69
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Julie Robinson, The world of Mortimer Menpes: painter, etcher, raconteur, 'Catalogue of works', pg. 193-221, Adelaide, 2014, 208 (colour illus.).
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