Sir Muirhead Bone Art
Scottish, 1876-1953
Muirhead Bone was born in Partick, a suburb of Glasgow in 1876. As a young man he was apprenticed to a firm of architects and in the evenings attended classes at the Glasgow School of Art. Aware his vocation was art, and not architecture, he devoted his time almost exclusively to drawing. He continually sketched the streets, buildings, and slums of Glasgow imbuing the urban decay with dignity and sentiment he so admired in the work of the Dutch artists whose townscapes he had studied in the Glasgow Corporation Art Galleries. Bone moved to London in 1901, holding his first exhibition at the Carfax Gallery in 1902. His success both critically and financially was rapid. His status as an etcher in the early years of the last century placed him among the world's most celebrated artists. It is not an exaggeration to say that his international reputation among collectors and the curators of the 'Great Print Rooms' of Europe and America was without parallel. He was appointed the first Official War Artist in World War I and was the doyen of War Artists in the Second World War. He was instrumental in the foundation of The Imperial War Museum, and became a Trustee of The Tate and The National Gallery. He was knighted for his services to art in 1937(Biography provided by Allinson Gallery, Inc.)
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Artist: Sir Muirhead Bone
Rainy Night in Rome
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Rainy Night in Rome
Drypoint, 1913
Signed in pencil and titled in the lower margin by the artist
(see photo)
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, Stock # A6538
Reference; Doddgson 299 _/X
Total edition in 10 states 125 printed
Note: The scene depicts the Church of San Rocco on the right at the intersection of via Schiavoria and via di Ripetta. Guichard considers this image to be among the artist's most desirable.
Condition: Exceptional, rich impressions, printing with extensive burr. Printed on a medium weight Japanese paper.
Image/Plate size: 12 x 9 inches
Sheet size: 15 7/8 x 11 inches
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars.
A figure in the last generation of the Etching Revival, Bone's early large and heavily-worked architectural subjects fetched extremely high prices before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 deflated the collectors' market. He was well known, if not notorious, for publishing large numbers of different states of etchings, encouraging collectors to buy several impressions.
Bone was an active member of both the British War Memorials Committee in the First World War and the War Artists' Advisory Committee in the Second World War He promoted the work of many young artists and served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, and the Imperial War Museum.
Early life
Muirhead Bone was born in Partick, Glasgow. His parents were journalist David Drummond Bone (1841–1911 and Elizabeth Millar Crawford (1847–1886).
The Bone and his siblings attended the local Board school and were placed in apprenticeships from the age of fourteen. James Bone...
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1910s English School Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Drypoint
Evening, Port of Genoa
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Evening, Port of Genoa. 1915. Drypoint. Dodgson 337.i/v. 7 5/8 x 9 15/16 (sheet 9 1/8 x 14). Edition of 45 in five states. An exceptionally rich impression with drypoint burr, printe...
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1910s Modern Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Drypoint
19th century landscape of rome daily life by fine print master Sir Muirhead Bone
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Milan, IT
Original etching and drypoint, signed in the plate and in pencil in the lower right corner; Dodgson "Etchings and drypoints by Muirhead Bone", Print Collector's Quarterly, 1922, IX, p. 173-200; Mackenzie, British Prints, p. 57; 400 x 278 mm
Superb test with signs particularly rich in beards, a characteristic typical only of the first tests: the pictorial effect is very effective. Small uneven margins. In perfect state of conservation.
Rich of burr drypoint, 1916, printed on cream paper. Good margins all around. In good condition.
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 - 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolorist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars. Bone was an active member of both the British War Memorials Committee in the First World War and the War Artists...
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1810s English School Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Etching
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) - 1927 Etching, Rev. Dr. Herbert Armitage James
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Corsham, GB
A rare and highly accomplished drypoint etching by the Scottish etcher and war artist during both world wars, Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953), of Rev. Dr. Herbert Armitage James (1844-...
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20th Century Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Etching
Sir David Muirhead Bone, A Mediterranean evening on a P & O cruise liner
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully evocative scene of a passenger looking out to sea on the deck of an ocean liner - from the golden age of cruising.
Sir David Muirhead Bone
On a P & O, Mediterranean ev...
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Rainy Night in Rome.
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Rainy NIght in Rome.. 1913. Drypoint. Dodgson 299.x. 12 x 9 (sheet 16 x 11 1/4). Edition 125 in 10 states. A rich impression with burr and tonal wiping. Pr...
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1910s Modern Sir Muirhead Bone Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
A Spanish Good Friday (Ronda)
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
A Spanish Good Friday (Ronda). 1925. Drypoint. Dodgson catalog 412 state xxix. Image: 12 1/2 x 8 1/8 (sheet 16 3/4 x 12). Edition 160 in 29 states. Illustrated: Zigrosser: Six Centuries of Fine Prints. A rich impression with velvety drypoint burr. Printed on smooth simili-Japan paper with full margins. Signed in pencil by Bone. Housed in a 22 1/4 x 15 1/2-inch period gold leaf frame.
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1920s Modern Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Windy Night, Stockholm.
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Windy Night, Stockholm. 1935. Drypoint. Dodgson 457.x. 11 7/8 x 7 5/8 (sheet 15 1/2 x 10 7/8). Edition of 80 in this state (total 93 in 10 states). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etc...
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1930s Modern Sir Muirhead Bone Art
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Etching, Drypoint
Rainy Night in Rome
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in New York, NY
Muirhead Bone (1876-1953), Rainy Night in Rome, drypoint, 1913,signed in pencil lower right and inscribed “Trial Proof” lower left margin. Reference: Dodgson 299, first state (of 10), a total of 125 impressions were printed in all 10 states. In very good condition, with margins (deckle edges bottom and right irregularly trimmed, the slightest toning), 12 x 8 7/8 inches, the sheet 15 3/4 x 11 inches.
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York (with their stock number a11101).
A fine rich impression, printed with a brownish/black ink, with substantial burr and carefully wiped plate tone lightening the center of the composition, printed on a cream wove paper. A trial proof aside from the 48 impressions in this state.
As described by Dodgson, the ground at the bottom right is blank to a height of 10 mm in this state, but the foreground of the composition is in fact darkened with plate tone.
Rainy Night in Rome is one of Bone’s great iconic images. It shows the church San Girolamo...
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1910s Realist Sir Muirhead Bone Art
Materials
Drypoint
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