Buchan
Item Information
- Title:
- Buchan
- Description:
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On the left, a threshing machine at work in front, a girl carrying a basket; a dog's head just sowing above the lower edge of the plate. Across the rest of the plate, a low-lying landscape stretching to a distant range of hills lightly indicated.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1914
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Landscape prints
- 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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Threshing machines
Farms
- Places:
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Scotland > Aberdeenshire (county) > Buchan (area)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 13 x 30 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419693k
- 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. 154
Additional information accompanying item: One of the Clyde Set. From the artist's personal collection. The same as Trial Proof #2, more fully printed with a brownish ink.
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
Etched 1914, Macduff.
- 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 (3). The smoke added, and dots suggestive of grass on the foreground and on the road to left of the girl. One proof clearly printed and grey in tone; the other a fuller printing with a brownish ink.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000189
W. 1324 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000008017
