Near the Khyber Pass aka Prayer on the Gobi Desert

 

Charles W. Bartlett

 

1923 -24 

etching with hand applied color 

3 15/16 x 7 7/8" platemark 

pencil signed lower center 

unstated; about 75 impressions 

artist's name inscribed in the plate in lower left 

Saville and Miles no.81 illustrated on page 140 in "A Printmaker in Paradise: The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett" 

cream wove 

color 

artist 

CAAL163 

$1,500.00 

Bartlett printed this image in black and white and then hand colored each work with watercolor. The impression illustrated in the Miles catalog (number 81) is in an uncolored state. The edition is thought to be 75, with variations in the coloring.