Cockle gatherers

Mortimer Menpes
Britain/Australia
1855 – 1938

Cockle gatherers
1880
drypoint, plate tone, printed in brown ink in paper
Place made
France or London
Medium
drypoint, plate tone, printed in brown ink in paper
Dimensions
18.1 x 13.1 cm (plate)
36.1 x 26.8 cm (sheet, irreg.)
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
20133PP18
Signature and date
Signed and dated, inscribed in plate, printed u.l., bronw ink, "Menpes 1880"; signed below plate l.l., pencil, M.L. Menpes".
Provenance
Celia Bailey, The Graven Image, UK; purchased by G & P Packer, Cornwall, UK
Catalogue raisonne
MM not known; GM 27
Media category
Print
Collection area
British prints

  • Mortimer Menpes: Impressions of Brittany

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 21 December 2018 – 17 June 2019