Cameron comes to market for the first time to sell at £19,500

Back in the late 1920s, during the height of the so-called Etching Boom, prints by Scottish contemporary artists such as Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron and James McBey were the subject of the sort of feverish speculation which now characterises the market for cutting-edge names like Damien Hirst, Richard Prince and Maurizio Cattelan.

In 1928, just two years after the British Museum paid £600 for a Michelangelo study for the celebrat…

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