Sir Muirhead Bone was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars.
Muirhead Bone by Francis Dodd
The British Museum Reading Room, May 1907 (1907), Tate Gallery
A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber (1916; Tate, London).
Chateau near Brie on the Somme (1918), Art.IWM REPRO00068459
The etching revival was the re-emergence and invigoration of etching as an original form of printmaking during the period approximately from 1850 to 1930. The main centres were France, Britain and the United States, but other countries, such as the Netherlands, also participated. A strong collector's market developed, with the most sought-after artists achieving very high prices. This came to an abrupt end after the 1929 Wall Street crash wrecked what had become a very strong market among collectors, at a time when the typical style of the movement, still based on 19th-century developments, was becoming outdated.
David Young Cameron, Horse Guards, St James's Park, signed and inscribed "Trial Proof – unfinished"
Charles-François Daubigny, Moving into the Boat, 1861
Charles Meryon, Abside de Notre Dame, 1854, fourth state of nine.
William Strang, 1882, Potato Lifting, published in The Portfolio.