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: From the artist's personal collection. One of Moroccan Set.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Etched January 6th, 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 (1). The donkey and mule on the right, and the figures under the arch, still incomplete and touched with pen.
IIIF Manifest