Dust, Beersheba

Title:: Dust, Beersheba
Description:: 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:: James McBey
Date:: 1920
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: James McBey (1883-1959). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:: Dust
Deserts
Camels
Artillery (Troops)
Troop movements
Places:: Israel > Southern District (territory) > Beersheba
Extent:: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 23 x 39 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p84199872
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.

Notes:: Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hardie and Carter: H. 193
Additional information accompanying item: Dust cloud burnished down in top centre. Additional lines on figures.
Notes (date):: Date from catalogue raisonné.
Etched in 1920.
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 upper part of the dust-cloud, hitherto completely circular, had been burnished out above the figures.
Identifier:: 17_06_000266
W. 1849 (no longer used)
Barcode:: 36666000189999

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