Dawn. The camel patrol setting out

Title from catalogue raisonné. Hardie and Carter: H. 181 Additional information accompanying item: Signed James McBey Serpeum July 1917. 1919. Proof no. A 19 of the published edition. Note.- This and the following five plates deal with the work of a Camel Patrol starting from a post on the Suez Canal into the desert of Sinai towards Beersheba. The first date after the signature gives the date when original study was made while the artist was with the Patrol. The date 1919 gives the year of completion. Date from catalogue raisonné. James McBey Hardie, Martin. Etchings and drypoints from 1902 to 1924 by James McBey (London: P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., 1925) [MB]. A camel patrol of nine Australians is setting out at dawn into the desert east of Serpeum, one of the armed posted on the Suez Canal. Two guides are in front, followed by a central group of Eve, and two in the foreground.