Print made by James McBey, 1883–1959, British, Français inconnus, 1917
- Title:
- Français inconnus
- Date:
- 1917
- Materials & Techniques:
- Drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (19.1 × 28.6 cm), Image: 6 × 10 inches (15.2 × 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen, lower left: "XXIII"; inscribed in pencil, lower left: "Français inconnus"; lower right: "A.17128"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "515 45429"
Stamped in brown ink on verso, lower center: "THE ART MUSEUM OF CHICAGO"
Lettered inside image, lower right: "James McBey, February 1917"
Signed in pen, lower right: "James McBey"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.383
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- graveyard | landscape | military art | observation balloons | soldiers | trenches | war | world war | World War, 1914-1918
- Associated Places:
- France | Fricourt
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23521
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James McBey went to France in January 1916. He obtained permission to spend his next 'leave' actually drawing at the Front and he produced a number of etchings of the battlefield. This print illustrates a graveyard of unknown French soldiers at Fricourt. Other French soldiers are resting in what was once a trench. Two observation balloons may be seen in the sky. In 1917 McBey was appointed an Official War Artist and sent to the Near East with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, where he remained until 1919. Gallery label for Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26)
Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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