Sunset: Wadi-um-Mukhsheib

Title from catalogue raisonné. Hardie and Carter: H. 185 Additional information accompanying item: From the artists personal collection. Date from item or from accompanying material. Etched in 1917. -Published 1919. James McBey Hardie, Martin, and Charles Carter. "The etchings and drypoints of James McBey (1883-1959)." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997, San Francisco. The Camel Patrol has halted for the night; its caravanserai the bed of a wadi (dry watercourse). The camels, unsaddled, are resting on the sand; men are preparing the evening meal; and a sentinel has mounted guard on a ridge to the right of two trees.