The Tartar Wall. Peking

 

Charles William Bartlett

  1860 - 1940 (biography)

c. 1919  

Color woodcut 

10 1/8 x 14 5/8" image 

signed in red crayon, lower left margin 

unstated 

title and CWB in key block, in lower right image 

Saville and Miles no.41 illustrated on page 124 in "A Printmaker in Paradise: The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett" 

ivory laid Japanese 

The Tartar Wall was printed in at least three differnt color variants. 

Shozaburo Watanabe, Tokyo 

CAAL161 

SOLD

Bartlett depicts a camel, drinking from a watering hole in the late evening. In the background is the Tartar Wall, Peking.

Miles notes: "The Tartar Wall, Peking" was printed in at least three color variants; a dark olive-green/blue varient characterized by an overall dark olive, nocturanal cast to the image where the left side of the farthest tower glimmers white.

A brown variant, with the ground printed with two blocks in browns of the same hue and slightly different value and the Tartar Wall above more olive in hue.

...and a cooler gray/blue variant, with the ground and Tartar Wall printed in variations of gray in contrast to the blues of the water and sky." This image is from the third variant.