The Canongate Tolbooth

1906

David Young Cameron

Associated Names
David Young Cameron

Artist, Scottish, 1865 - 1945

The image shows an urban street scene with a focus on the architecture. The view is level with the lower floors of buildings, showing the horizon through rooftops and building-street intersections. A clock is visible on a building, standing out in the scene. The architecture displays ornate details, arches, vertical lines, turrets, and a weather vane. The style includes cross-hatched brushstrokes for an etched appearance with attention to stone textures and shadows. The color palette is limited to sepia tones. Figures are seen in the distance, adding a sense of movement.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32 × 13.7 cm (12 5/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 41.8 × 17.4 cm (16 7/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2416

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rinder 1932, no. 378, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d and Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Rinder, Frank. D.Y. Cameron, an illustrated catalogue of his etchings and drypoints, 1887-1932. Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie and Company, 1932.

Inscriptions

in plate upper right: DYCameron; below plate lower right in graphite: D.Y. Cameron; by later hands in graphite bottom left: Made in Scotland; verso bottom left: R378

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64955059

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