David Young Cameron’s etching, “The Towers of Charterhouse Godalming”, 1895

David Young Cameron (aka Sir David Young Cameron RA RSA RE) (1865–1945)—one of the leading practitioners of the Etching Revival

“The Towers of Charterhouse Godalming”, 1895, from the series of four plates published in 1895 in E.P. Eardley Wilmot and E.C. Streatfeild’s “Charterhouse Old and New”, printed in London by Frederick Goulding (1842–1909). This impression is from this initial edition, mindful that there is also a later edition published in Stirling by Eneas Mackay (fl.1899–c.1940) in 1910 (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1923-1023-1-1-4).

Etching printed in a warm black ink on fine wove buff-coloured Japanese paper.

Size: (sheet) 21.6 x 13 cm; (plate, soft impression approximation) 16.3 x 11.3 cm; (image borderline) 13 x 8.3 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: "THE^.TOWERS^.OF^.CHARTERHOUSE^.GODALMING  D.Y.C."

State i (of ii) “Before considerable darkening of foreground” of state ii (Rinder 1912).

Rinder 243 (Frank Rinder 1912 [sup.1932], “D.Y. Cameron: An Illustrated Catalogue of His Etched Work”, Glasgow, Jackson, Wylie & Company, p. 110, cat. no. 243, state 1 [https://archive.org/details/dycameronillustr00rind/page/110/mode/2up]).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers the following description of this print: “An exterior view of the Towers of Charterhouse in the historic market town of Godalming in Surrey, England with trees and foliage in the foreground” (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/708036).

Condition: a strong and near faultless impression in pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this small and very beautiful etching—a print that I would describe as a true “printmaker’s print” as the subtlety of the craftsmanship and sense of aesthetic beauty is (to my eyes) superb—for AU256 in total (currently US$171.61/EUR156.37/GBP134.69 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively executed and insightfully considered etching by key artist in the Etching Revival, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.