Gun fire, Mount of Olives
Item Information
- Title:
- Gun fire, Mount of Olives
- Title (alt.):
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Gunfire: Mount of Olives
- Description:
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The statue of the Virgin and Child on the roof of the French Hospice at Jerusalem is silhouetted against a sky lit up, over the Mount of Olives, by the flare of gun fire.
- Artist:
- McBey, James, 1883-1959
- Name on Item:
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James McBey
- Date:
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1921
- 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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Public sculpture
- Places:
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Israel > Jerusalem (territory) > Jerusalem
- Extent:
- 1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 20 x 15 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p8419b29c
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) James McBey
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title(s) from item or accompanying material.
Hardie and Carter: H. 204
Additional information accompanying item: From the artist's own collection. Figure has been added at extreme right. Balustrade and figures heavily worked over with drypoint. Diagonal lines added in sky to left of child's head.
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
- 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 (6). Above, and to the left of, the Child's head, diagonal lines are added in the sky running from right to left.
- Identifier:
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17_06_000315
W. 1530 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000199915
