22. Sir David Muirhead Bone
(1876-1953)
Culross Roofs

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Bone, Culross Roofs

Culross Roofs

Drypoint, 1909, 190 x 274 mm., Dodgson 262 vi/viii. A very fine proof impression, one of three of this state, 49 impressions in all, on laid japan paper with full margins, signed in pencil and with a penciled B in the upper right corner indicating an impression from the artist’s own collection. Bone, after some early etched efforts and apart from some lithographs, worked almost exclusively in drypoint, of which he was a consummate master. He was, perhaps, the finest draughtsman of his time in Britain, but his often complex drypoints were constructed scratch by scratch over sometimes a multiplicity of states. His work had enormous influence on contemporary British print makers, partially in his frequent choice of urban subject matter, and partially in the complex patterns of light and shade, amply demonstrated here, that he created from both architectural and natural elements of the scene. The village of Culross is on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.