Enkhuizen

James McBey

1910

  • Titles Enkhuizen (Proper), Dutch Canal (Former title)
  • Artist James McBey, Scotland, 1883 - 1959
  • Medium etching
  • Dimensions sheet (irregular): 8 3/8 × 11 in. (21.2 × 27.9 cm) plate: 5 × 6 7/8 in. (12.7 × 17.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. G. J. Roscoe, 1979.66
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Scene of a village dispersed among a hilly landscape. A flock of sheep graze the right hillside. Villagers are seen engaged in various activities. The tree near the center of the composition contains traces of green and pink wash.
The man and woman with their children stand outside a spirit's store. They look at one another as the man slides a bottle into his coat pocket.
Mary, Joseph, three Shepherds and two angels surround a crib covered with a white cloth on which rests the newsborn Jesus. Behind, on the left, a monumental stone colums that belongs to building. In the far distance, on a hillside, shepherds with their flock by a tent. Above, the sky opens and an angel descends through the clouds in a ray of light.
A vertical, abstract composition made up of a repetition of a geometric shape in various sizes vertically stacked, appearing to balance on top of one another.