A crowd outside the Tangier gate of Tetuan. In front a single woman, seen to waist, with hand raised to her veil. In the centre, two fig-trees; the sun rising on the left above the Riff mountains.
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hardie and Carter: H. 137
Additional information accompanying item: One of Moroccan Set.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Done at Tetuan, January, 1913.
Notes (citation):
Hardie, Martin, and Charles Carter. "The etchings and drypoints of James McBey (1883-1959)." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Trial proof (3). The drypoint lines on the ground and the bitten lines in the square space between the donkey and the man leading him are burnished down. The tree comes exactly to the edge of the wall.
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