Lot 56
JAMES MCBEY (1883-1959)
ZERO. A SIXTY-FIVE POUNDER OPENING FIRE
Auction: 18 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£550
Description
(MH 201 : 1920) Drypoint, signed and numbered in ink XIX of 76, unframed.
Dimensions
21.1cm x 39.1cm
Footnote
Note: Described by Hardy as the "outstanding plate" of the Second Palestine Set with "its brilliant contrast of light and shade, its dramatic concentration in the very essentials of the scene, and its illusion of the vivid flash and deafening explosion which ended the long period of tense stillness for the waiting figures in the 'Moonlight Attack' (i.e. the preceding plate).