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DAVID CAMERON Souvenir d'Amsterdam.
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 1915-30. 375x260 mm; 11 3/4x10 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 60. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression.
A native of Glasgow, Cameron (1865-1945) made his first etchings in the late 1880s. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1889 (Haden was the first president of this London-based group, which Whistler despised and ridiculed). Cameron produced more than 400 etchings and drypoints during his career. He was among the most commercially successful printmakers of the early 20th-century, riding the crest of the Etching Revival that had begun in the late 1850s; prices for his prints often rivaled those of Whistler and even old masters such as Rembrandt. His work is largely topographical and architectural, he favored a heavy use of chiaroscuro on shop interiors, building façades and even landscapes, and was indebted to Whistler's 'French Set' and Venetian etchings as the inspiration for many of his own prints. Rinder 460.
