Old Birch Hall, Manchester
Muirhead Bone
1899
Medium
drypoint in black
Dimensions
plate: 24.77 × 16.19 cm (9 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1934
About the Artist
Muirhead Bone · 1876–1953
Sir Muirhead Bone was born in Glasgow on March 23, 1876, into a world of shipyards and industrial architecture that would profoundly shape his art. He trained initially in architectural draftsmanship before studying at Glasgow School of Art, developing a draughtsman's eye for structure and mass. He began printmaking in 1898, and though his first known print was a lithograph, he became celebrated a...