About this artwork

This landscape, showing the famed prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, was one of two prints Cameron made for the National Art Collections Fund (now the Art Fund) in 1928. Cameron, who sat on the Fund’s committee, presented 100 signed impressions to members who subscribed to a memorial volume published for the Fund’s twenty-fifth anniversary. It is one of the few plates by Cameron that was steel-faced, meaning that a thin layer of steel was added to the copper etching plate’s surface. The harder metal would prolong the life of the plate so more impressions could be pulled from it. However, Cameron generally avoided steel-facing as it impairs the quality of the lines.

Updated before 2020

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Sir David Young Cameron

Sir David Young Cameron