Lot 146
146
Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938)
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Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938)

The Giant Lantern

Details
Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938)
The Giant Lantern
signed 'Mortimer Menpes' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
10¼ x 6½ in. (26 x 16.5 cm.)
Exhibited
London, The Fine Art Society, Opening the Window: British Artists in Meiji Japan 1880-1900, 1991, no. 36.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A similar watercolour can be found in Mortimer Menpes, Japan: a record in colour, transcribed by Dorothy Menpes, London, 1905, p. 28.
For a note on the artist, see lot 144.

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