7. Charles W. Cain
(1893-1962)

Ezekiel’s Tomb

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Cain, Ezekiel’s Tomb

Ezekiel’s Tomb

Drypoint, ca. 1930, 250 x 188 mm. Very fine impression on J. Whatman wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Cain was one of those peripatetic Englishmen who explored the East and set down artistically just what it looked like, both for those of his time who would never get there and those of future generations for whom there might no longer be a “there” there. Ezekiel’s tomb is (or maybe was) in Kifl in southern Iraq. The image also shows a fourteenth-century minaret which was not actually part of the tomb. The Jewish shrine of Ezekiel, while nearby, is not shown. We have other images by Cain for sale.