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Photo Credit: photo: T. Rodriguez
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The Desert of Sinai (No. 2)
191920th century
202 x 354 mm (8 x 13.9 in.)
James McBey, British (Scottish), (1883–1959)
Object Type:
print
Medium and Support:
Etching
Edition:
Published American edition, no. A4; 7 trial proofs; published impressions lettered A–F for Artist’s Proofs and numbered I–L for British edition, A1–A20 for American edition; 3 impressions for museums lettered separately
Marks:
Signed in plate, lower left: “James McBey Sinai July 1917”; signed in pen, lower right: “James McBey”
Bibliography:
Hardie 184; Salaman 184, plate 48.
Credit Line:
Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1945
Accession Number:
1945.D1.2
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- deserts - Dry, barren, treeless regions, so arid because of little rainfall that they support only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all; usually sandy. RHDEL2
- Egypt - TGN 7016833
- military
- North Africa - TGN 7016886
- Sinai - TGN 7016814
- war - From TGM: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/item/tgm011468
- World War I
- world wars - Wars that involve most of the leading political and military powers of the world or most of the earth's territory. [July 1993 descriptor added.]
Dimensions
- plate Dimensions: 202 x 354 mm (8 x 13.9 in.)
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Credit Caption
James McBey, British (Scottish), (1883–1959) . The Desert of Sinai (No. 2), 1919. Etching. plate : 202 x 354 mm (8 x 13.9 in.). DAC accession number 1945.D1.2. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1945. (photo: T. Rodriguez) .
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