"Palaces on the Canal, Venice" by Mortimer L. Menpes, Eng., (1860-1938) Watercolor light toning verso

light toning verso

She lived in Litchfleld

pale mat line from previous mount

signed in the block

"Palaces on the Canal, Venice" by Mortimer L. Menpes, Eng., (1860-1938) Watercolor light toning versoEtching, ca. 1880's, Ed. unknown, 3 3 4 x 11 7 8, signed in pencil & titled in the bottom right margin, on cream laid paper with a partial crown and disk watermark. There is an old mat line and a few spots of foxing to the margin outside the plate mark at right, neither visible otherwise a fine, crisp impression of this lovely and beautifully detailed Venetian subject by an artist of Whistler's inner circle. The panoramic format shows the composition