MR. JAMES McBEY'S NEW PALES- gestion that in the fierce flash of the
TINE ETCHINGS. BY MALCOLM great gun's discharge against the dark of
C. SALAMAN. 0000 niSht' one can almost hear the deafening
report. The silhouette is masterly in its
MR. McBEY'S six.new plates, recently sufficiency to tell all the artist wanted to
issued by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaghi say. No less is No. 4, The Advance on
and Co., carry us up to the taking of Jerusalem : Wadi Alt Eighteen miles up
Jerusalem, and they are all distinguished the Gorge of the Wadi Ali is Jerusalem,
by the originality of vision and magic of The infantry had consolidated their posi-
expression which this master of the etching- tions near Enab, about ten miles up, and
needle has taught us to expect. In No. 1, artillery and supplies were being hurried to
Palestine : "Blue Bonnets over the Border" their assistance. Over the maritime plain
we see the 52nd Division march into the long lines converged near Latron (about
Holy Land after harassing the Turk in where the drawing was made), and for days
retreat for two years across the Desert of a dense continuous column poured into the
Sinai. No. 2, Dust : Beersheba, shows cleft in the Judean plateau. No. 5, The First
the Camel Corps advancing in a cloud Sight of Jerusalem : Nebi Samwil: I find
of sandy dust stirred up by the camels' it impossible to look at this etching
tread, and the way in which this has been without experiencing something of the
suggested by the aid of " foul-biting " is thrill those troops in the foreground
an etcher's triumph. In No. 3, Zero : trench (the 1-123 Outram's Rifles, by
(60 pr. opening fire), Mr. McBey has used the way) must have felt when day dawned
his dry-point with such wizardry of sug- on the 22nd November, 1917, and on the
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" ZERO (60 PR. OPENING FIRE) "
(DRY-POINT). BY JAMES MCBEY
TINE ETCHINGS. BY MALCOLM great gun's discharge against the dark of
C. SALAMAN. 0000 niSht' one can almost hear the deafening
report. The silhouette is masterly in its
MR. McBEY'S six.new plates, recently sufficiency to tell all the artist wanted to
issued by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaghi say. No less is No. 4, The Advance on
and Co., carry us up to the taking of Jerusalem : Wadi Alt Eighteen miles up
Jerusalem, and they are all distinguished the Gorge of the Wadi Ali is Jerusalem,
by the originality of vision and magic of The infantry had consolidated their posi-
expression which this master of the etching- tions near Enab, about ten miles up, and
needle has taught us to expect. In No. 1, artillery and supplies were being hurried to
Palestine : "Blue Bonnets over the Border" their assistance. Over the maritime plain
we see the 52nd Division march into the long lines converged near Latron (about
Holy Land after harassing the Turk in where the drawing was made), and for days
retreat for two years across the Desert of a dense continuous column poured into the
Sinai. No. 2, Dust : Beersheba, shows cleft in the Judean plateau. No. 5, The First
the Camel Corps advancing in a cloud Sight of Jerusalem : Nebi Samwil: I find
of sandy dust stirred up by the camels' it impossible to look at this etching
tread, and the way in which this has been without experiencing something of the
suggested by the aid of " foul-biting " is thrill those troops in the foreground
an etcher's triumph. In No. 3, Zero : trench (the 1-123 Outram's Rifles, by
(60 pr. opening fire), Mr. McBey has used the way) must have felt when day dawned
his dry-point with such wizardry of sug- on the 22nd November, 1917, and on the
178
" ZERO (60 PR. OPENING FIRE) "
(DRY-POINT). BY JAMES MCBEY