Dust, Beersheba
Item Information
- Title:
- Dust, Beersheba
- Description:
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The Australian contingent of the Imperial Camel Corps, throwing up and encircling cloud of dust, is pushing its way across the desert for the attack on Beersheba.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1920
- 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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Dust
Deserts
Camels
Artillery (Troops)
Troop movements
- Places:
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Israel > Southern District (territory) > Beersheba
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23 x 39 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419985h
- 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. 193
Additional information accompanying item: From the artist's own collection. Additional lines in this space. Two long and four small vertical lines.
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
Etched in 1920.
- 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). A dry-point line with four diagonal strokes above it appears at edge of plate to left of the shadow. Portions of the dust-cloud have been burnished.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000265
W. 1538 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000189981