"Palaces on the Canal, Venice" by Mortimer L. Menpes, Eng., (1860-1938) Watercolor pale mat line from previous

pale mat line from previous mount

which was created while the artist was living in Waterbury

aside from the obvious sexual symbolism

The little owl is often a symbol of both wisdom and harbinger of the ominous

embraced these ideas in both his teaching and his own explorations of abstraction

"Palaces on the Canal, Venice" by Mortimer L. Menpes, Eng., (1860-1938) Watercolor pale mat line from previousEtching, 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