44. David Young Cameron
(1865-1945)

The Palace, Stirling Castle

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Cameron, The Palace

The Palace, Stirling Castle

Etching, 1893, 267 x 145 mm., Rinder 174 only state. Superb impression in brown-black with variably-wiped plate tone on laid paper with good margins, titled and signed in pencil. This is one of Cameron’s finest early etchings and no impression of it has been on the market for some time. Its subject evokes 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. It is also 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.