Old House, Nos.174-6-8 Main Street, Gorbals

1900

David Young Cameron

Associated Names
David Young Cameron

Artist, Scottish, 1865 - 1945

The image shows a two-story building with a sloped roof and small dormer windows. The building has signs for a blacksmith and an oyster bar. A lamp post and a ladder are visible in the scene, along with two figures. The artwork is rendered in sepia tones with fine, linear strokes, depicting details such as brickwork.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.1 × 15.2 cm (4 × 6 in.)
    sheet: 22.1 × 28.4 cm (8 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2689

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rinder 1932, no. 323

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); 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: DYC; [shop signs]; verso center by later hands in graphite:gorbals

Watermarks

two partials: A.C.L.; O.W

Wikidata ID

Q64955601

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