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New Releases by Charles CarterCharles Carter is the author of Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson, with Particular Reference to the Attack They Contain on the Memory of the Late Gen. Henry Lee (2025), The Tradesman's Pocket Guide. C. Carter's Discount And Per-centage Tables... (2025), The Care of Horses (2025), 101 Good Memories about Dog and Me (2017), Puppy Training (2016).
Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson, with Particular Reference to the Attack They Contain on the Memory of the Late Gen. Henry Lee
release date: Jul 27, 2025
The Tradesman's Pocket Guide. C. Carter's Discount And Per-centage Tables...
release date: May 22, 2025
release date: May 22, 2025
101 Good Memories about Dog and Me
release date: Dec 24, 2017
release date: Dec 19, 2016
The Compleat City and Country Cook
release date: Aug 11, 2015
Pacts and Alliances in History
release date: Apr 11, 2012
Some Principles of Horoscopic Delineation
release date: Jun 01, 2009
release date: Jul 01, 2008
release date: Jan 01, 2002
release date: Jan 01, 1999
Etchings & Dry Points of James McBey (1883-1959)
release date: Jan 01, 1997
James McBey was born at Newburgh, a little fishing village on the Aberdeenshire coast, on December 23, 1883. Educated in the village school, he passed, at the age of fifteen, into the North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen. He was seventeen when he first fell under the spell of what Samuel Palmer called the "teasing, temper-trying, yet fascinating art" of etching. The years 1902 to 1909 form the first phase of the artist's career. To that , period- with a gap of two years (1906-7), when he gave all his spare time to painting - belong sixty prints. In July, 1910, McBey cut his cables, and embarked on his great adventure. With a few pounds in his pocket, he left the Bank, and sailed for Holland, to fling his hat to the windmills. "No man who is instinctively an etcher," Sir Frederick Wedmote once wrote, "can keep himself for ever absent from the great flat lands that inspired Rembrandt." No man was ever: more instinctively an etcher than McBey, and the result of his visit to the land of low-lying distances, and big skies, of canals and mills, was a Dutch Set of twenty-one plates. The work of 191 0 and 1911 forms a distinct second phase in McBey's career, culminating with the first exhibition of his work, held at the gallery of Goupil & Co., in November, 1911. Well-known critics - notably Mr. James Greig of the Morning Post and Mr. Malcolm Salaman were quick to appreciate the newcomer, and wrote with enthusiasm of his work. In 1914, 'the inspiration of London's river-not Whistler's Thames, but a river of , bustling activity and movement--caused a new revelation of the artist's power. In January, 1916, McBey' war service began in France. There, though thwarted by rain, mud, and difficulties of transport, he found the material for five plates, etchings that will have lasting value as records of our Western Front and of all the grim tragedy of war. They show us the devastating activity of great howitzers; the pathos of the cemetery where crosses,' row on row, marked the graves of unknown soldiers. The War over, and his "First Palestine Set" issued, McBey enjoyed the study of portraiture and character in the peaceful surroundings of his new studio in Bolland Park Avenue.The "Second Palestine Set;' published in 1920, consists of eight plates giving a vivid, historic record of the march over Sinai in 1918, the crossing of the border, the Australian Camel Corps pushing on to the attack of Beersheba in an encircling cloud of dust, the first sight of Jerusalem, and that dramatic moment when the surrender of the Holy City was received by two sergeants of the London Division. At last McBey was free from all official obligations of the War, and at liberty to make what etchings he chose. He promptly translated a drawing he had made seven years before into that pregnant dry-point, A Flood in the Fens. . . .
release date: Jan 01, 1992
The Complete Practical Cook
Sketch-map Geographies: Physical geography
Sketch-map Geographies: British Isles
An English-Sinhalese dictionary
English and Sinhalese Lesson Book on Ollendorff's System
Home Gardening in South Carolina
Fighting by Southern Federals
Permanent Lawns for the South
Notes on Varieties of Apples
An English-Sinhalese Dictionary
On certain “Simious” Skulls, with especial reference to a skull from Louth, in Ireland. [Extracted from the Memoirs of the Anthropological Society.]
On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo
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