Dawn

Title from item. Alternative title(s) from item or from accompanying material. Study for the etching titled, "Dawn. The camel patrol setting out" (Hardie and Carter: H. 181). Additional information accompanying item: Signed at lower right McBey. Date from item or from accompanying material. Done in1917. McBey Hardie, Martin, Charles Carter. The etchings and drypoints of James McBey 1st ed. (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1991). 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.