35. David Young Cameron
(1865-1945)
Ben Lomond

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Cameron, Ben Lomond

Ben Lomond

Etching and drypoint, 1923, Rinder 468 v/vi, 262 x 414 mm. Fine proof impression before the etched signature, printed with plate tone on thick laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil; the paper time toned in the area of the old mat opening and a few, small dent marks at the left. Rinder called Ben Lomond “Cameron’s supreme landscape achievement as an etcher.” Certainly, the peak of Ben Lomond looming over the loch and reflected in it is as evocative of Scotland as any black and white landscape could be. It is one of the great classic prints of an era when every cultured man (and woman) collected etchings as a matter of course, like reading books and listening to classical music. All three are still around today – for the happy few.