Strange signals
Item Information
- Title:
- Strange signals
- Description:
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The two guides in front of the Camel Patrol are riding across the desert side by side, gazing fixedly ahead. (In the distant mirage had appeared the passing semblance of smoke signals).
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1917–1919
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James McBey (1883-1959). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Deserts
Camels
Guides & scouts
- Places:
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Egypt > Janūb Sīnā' > Sinai (area)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23 x 39 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419401f
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hardie and Carter: H. 186
Additional information accompanying item: From the artist's personal collection. Only one leg of far camel etched in. Some drawing on proof.
- Notes (date):
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Date from item or from accompanying material.
Etched July 1917. -Published 1919.
- Notes (citation):
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Hardie, Martin, and Charles Carter. "The etchings and drypoints of James McBey (1883-1959)." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Trial proof (2). The plate bitten, and a bandolier added round the neck of the far camel. The outline of the neck and other work in pencil.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000237
W. 1297 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000199535