Goldfish

Mortimer Menpes

1901

Watercolour

Source: Japan, A Record in Colour, facing p. 52

This painting might seem rather inconsequential, but it is not. It goes with one of Menpes's explanations of the difference between Japanese and Western art, transcribed in the comment below. — Jacqueline Banerjee

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