NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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44. David Young Cameron (1865-1945) The Palace, Stirling Castle |
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The Palace, Stirling Castle
Etching, 1893, 267 x 145 mm., Rinder 174 only state. Superb impression in black-brown ink with variably-wiped plate tone on laid paper with good margins, titled and signed in pencil. There had been an etching tradition in Scotland for some time, but at the close of the nineteenth century and with the emergence of Cameron, Strang, Bone and McBey the Scots began to dominate graphic art in Britain. Cameron was immensely popular for a long while. It is interesting to remember that before Picasso came on the scene, the highest price paid at auction for any print was for a D. Y. Cameron. With the explosion of modern art and the Great Depression, his works, along with those of similar-minded artists, were pushed far into the background, only to come back slowly but steadily in interest. This is one of his finest early works and no impression of it has been on the market for some time. If one wonders what such an architectural image is doing here, the sentiment is in the history, for, among other things, Mary, Queen of Scots was crowned here, and Bonnie Prince Charlie attempted, unsuccessfully, to take the castle in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-6.
