27. Sir David Young Cameron
(1865-1945)
Old Bridge, Whitby

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Cameron: Old Bridge, Whitby

Old Bridge, Whitby

Drypoint, 1908, 201 x 319 mm., Rinder 403 ii/ii, edition of 21 (all states), rare. Artists of the etching revival tended to be peripatetic travellers. One of the side benefits of many of their prints is that they show us places we ourselves have never been to and may never get to. Whitby is in the Northeast of England, on the North Sea, at the mouth of the Esk River. It is a town of some antiquity having originally been the site of an abbey founded by St. Hilda in 657. The Old Bridge is somewhat more recent than that, but its stocky profile is quite a nice addition to the artistic iconography of bridges. Fine impression on thin, tan, laid japan paper with small margins and signed in pencil.