37. Mortimer L. Menpes
(1855-1938)

Old Wooden House on a Street Corner, Sicily

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Menpes, Old Wooden House

Old Wooden House on a Street Corner, Sicily

Etching, and drypoint, edition and date unknown, 150 x 199 mm. A very fine impression in brown, with modulated plate tone, on thin, old laid paper with full margins. While far more concerned with textures (and far less with light) than Whistler would have been, this plate with its brown ink and varied plate tone brings to mind some of the latter's Venice plates and, perhaps even more, many of the London storefronts and housefronts that Whistler etched in the late 1880s.