30. Sir David Young Cameron
(1865-1945)
Skye

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Cameron: Skye

Skye

Etching and drypoint, ca, 1931(?), 68 x 113 mm., subsequent to Rinder. This late and somehow obscure print (small, so no one seems to have paid attention to it in the past) beautifully sums up, on a tiny scale, what Cameron's Scottish landscapes are all about: simple, stark, spontaneous, economic in line, dramatic in shading, a portrait of a place. Skye is that perhaps most photogenic of the Inner Hebrides islands, lying between the mainland west coast of the Highlands and the Outer Hebrides. Excellent impression with burr on tan wove paper with large margins, signed in pencil.