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Impenitent Author

George Moore half-length.

The third portrait to serve as a frontispiece of Confessions of a Young Man. The etching was commissioned by publisher William Swan Sonnenschein based on a photograph by William Page supplied by Moore. After it had been advertised as the work of Menpes, for unknown reasons the artist asked the publisher to mask his name with a pseudonym, F. Wedd.

I gave the title “Impenitent Author” to this picture as a fair description of the author of Confessions of a Young Man.

Published in George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man (1889) as a frontispiece.