The Tartar Wall. Peking by Charles William Bartlett
The Tartar Wall. Peking
Charles William Bartlett
Title
The Tartar Wall. Peking
Artist
Charles William Bartlett
1860 - 1940 (biography)Year
c. 1919
Technique
Color woodcut
Image Size
10 1/8 x 14 5/8" image
Signature
signed in red crayon, lower left margin
Edition Size
unstated
Annotations
title and CWB in key block, in lower right image
Reference
Saville and Miles no.41 illustrated on page 124 in "A Printmaker in Paradise: The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett"
Paper
ivory laid Japanese
State
The Tartar Wall was printed in at least three differnt color variants.
Publisher
Shozaburo Watanabe, Tokyo
Inventory ID
CAAL161
Price
SOLD
Description
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.