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Item Information
- Title:
- Français inconnus
- Description:
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A graveyard of unknown French soldiers at Fricourt. Poilus are resting in what was once a trench; beyond it, barbed wire stretches in front of wooden crosses. Two observation balloons in the sky to the right.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1917
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Drypoints
- 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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Cemeteries
Battlefields
Soldiers
World War, 1914-1918
- Places:
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France > Normandie (region) > Fricourt
- Extent:
- 1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 15 x 25 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419075d
- 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. 176
Additional information accompanying item: From the Artist's personal collection. Printed more fully.
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
Etched in 1917.
- 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). Only four figures seen against the sky to the left. Trial (2) is printed more fully than (1).
- Identifier:
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17_06_000718
W. 1251 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000008793
