Old Castile from the collection of Mike Woginrich

Old Castile, 1911

Etching & Drypoint

7.0875 x 11 in

Signature: Signed lower-right corner in pen. Edition XI in pen lower-left in pen. Signed in plate lower center-right. Signed in plate Burgos 26 July 1911 lower right-hand corner. Titled Old Castile in pencil lower right-hand corner below previous frame line.

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Hardie 92.

A view outside Burgos. The castle stands on a hill to the right, the cathedral to the left. In the middle distance Spanish cavalry are exercising, and in the centre of the foreground are two tall trees close together.

James McBey was born on December 23, 1883 in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, educated at his village school, and at the age of 15 years he became a clerk in a local bank. He taught himself how to create etchings on zinc plates from a book on etching "Traité de la Gravure a l'Eau-Forte."

In 1911, he exhibited at the Goupil Gallery in London and his prints were published in both London and Glasgow. In 1916 McBey was appointed official war artist to the Palestine Expeditionary Force, and these drawings are now in the Imperial War Museum. He made several visits thereafter to the Middle East and North Africa. In the 1920s his etchings began to sell at an accelerated price, and he was featured by Malcolm Salaman in the second volume of the series "Modern Masters of Etching" and Salaman also compiled a catalogue of his work, published in 1929. In addition, he had commissions to paint a number of formal portraits, including one of Sir Harry Lauder in 1921.

James McBey died on December 1, 1959 in Tangier, Morocco.

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