McNab (Allan)

a view from the Casbah towards the Strait of Gibraltar in Tangiers, northern Morocco. A fine example by Allan McNab (1901-1982) of his ‘etching revival’ period in the 1920s and early ’30s following his training at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, before he relocated to the United States and turned his artistic skills towards industrial and commercial design, and even museum administration,

etching, 280 x 395 mm. (11 x 15 1/2 in), signed and dated in pencil, lower right, numbered 2/75, lower left, also signed and dated in the lower right corner of the plate, a marginal exposure line,