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CHARLES W. CAIN Two etchings with drypoint.
Hand Maidens, Baghdad, on Japan paper, circa 1925. 377x251 mm; 15x10 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 7/50 in ink, lower margin * A Baghdad Roof. 251x377 mm; 10x15 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 66/77 in ink, lower margin.
The English printmaker Cain (1893-1962) produced around 75 etchings during the 1920s and 1930s, mainly Orientalist scenes, evocative of Whistler's Venice etchings in their sparseness and exotic feel.
