Palazzo dei Cammerlenghi
James McBey
1925
Medium
etching
Dimensions
plate: 32.9 x 21.2 cm (12 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.) overall: 37.4 x 24.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6055
About the Artist
James McBey
James McBey (1883–1959) was a Scottish artist renowned for his etchings and paintings, emerging from humble beginnings in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, as the illegitimate son of a blacksmith's daughter. Largely self-taught, he left school at fifteen to work as a bank clerk in Aberdeen, where he devoured art books from the public library and attended evening classes at Gray's School of Art to hone his ...