Beggars, Tetuan (no.1)
Item Information
- Title:
- Beggars, Tetuan (no.1)
- Description:
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A view through a series of doorways, with a hanging lamp in the middle. On the right, two seated beggars back to back, one with a bowl, and another under a square doorway further on. After four trial proofs were printed this plate was abandoned in favour of "Beggars, Tetuan, No.2", the same subject reversed, with considerable variations.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1912
- 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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Beggars
Doors & doorways
Passageways
- Places:
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Morocco > Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma (region) > Tétouan
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 14 x 12 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419815m
- 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. 133
Additional information accompanying item: From the artist's personal collection.
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
Etched in December, 1912.
- 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 (1). A dark scribble runs horizontally down the left edge of the square doorway.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000672
W. 752 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000192027