Strange signals

Title from catalogue raisonné. Hardie and Carter: H. 186 Additional information accompanying item: From the artist's personal collection. Drypoint sketch, outlining only. Considerable pencil sketching including insertion of third camel and rider at left of plate. Date from item or from accompanying material. Etched July, 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 two guides in front of the Camel Patrol are riding across the desert side by side, gazing fixedly ahead. (In the distant mirage had appeared the passing semblance of smoke signals).