The Wingless Chimera

Artist Sir David Young Cameron (1865 - 1945)

Date1911

MediumEtching on paper

Dimensions20.4 x 24.8 cm

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Sir David Young Cameron (the Artist).

Object number433

DescriptionThis intaglio print (etching) depicts two stone gargoyles sitting on plinths on a rooftop balustrade of a building. They are overlooking a street below and a town fading into the distance. The gargoyles are etched in great detail with the town below receiving a more sketchy finish by the artist.

Cameron trained at the Glasgow and Edinburgh Schools of Art in the 1880s, and from 1887-1892 he was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

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