By the Light of the Lanterns

Mortimer Menpes

1901

Watercolour

Source: Japan, A Record in Colour, facing p. 40

Menpes was enchanted with night-time scenes in Japan. They were as much a form of art to him as paintings. — Jacqueline Banerjee (see below for Menpes' own comment).

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