Signed engraving by John Cameron, depicting a humorous scene in front of a 'Junk Shop in Chelsea'.
Author:
John Cameron, artist and engraver [Chelsea, London]
Publication details:
Without place or date [1950s?].
£180.00
SKU: 12848
In black and white. Dimensions of paper 15 x 20 cm; dmensions of plate 13.5 x 18.5 cm. In good condition, lightly-aged. Cameron's actual signature ('John Cameron') is in blue ink in the bottom right-hand corner of the card; his facsimile signature is in the bottom left-hand corner of the print, with 'Junk Shop | in Chelsea' in the bottom right-hand corner. A detailed, cartoony image (with Ronald Searle undertones), depicting a stretch of three houses in a terraced street, with a number of customers rooting through junk in front of a corner shop. They include a young arty couple, a man with a pipe and an orthodox Jew. In the foreground stands a grand woman in furs, imperiously aloof, a large busty dressmaker's dummy behind her.