120º Tigris, a drypoint etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, blued white laid paper.

The sparsely and delicately used stylus creates a bright and engaging composition. The group on the right bank of the Tigris river is very detailed.

Charles Cain studied at Camberwell School of Art and then as an illustrator until WWI when he joined the Border Regiment in India and Mesopotamia until the armistice. He first gained national recognition for his art of WWI. Shortly after the end of the war the Imperial War Museum purchased thirty of his drawings. He entered the Royal College of Art under Frank Short 1920-1 and created his first published engraving in 1921. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, Charles W. Cain produced seventy-four original etchings and engravings, all published in London by Greatorex. The large majority of his prints deal with scenes in Iraq, Persia, Indian and Burma. Cain developed a strong reputation as a major Orientalist printmaker.