Sir Muirhead Bone

Bone, from Glasgow, was called the greatest architectural draughtsman since Piranesi and the comparison is not silly. He drew buildings being built and knocked down, London, Glasgow, Spain, Italy, in pencil of astonishing density and control, and translated them into drypoints that no one has matched for scaffolding, cranes and crowds. Britain's first official war artist in 1916.

He is public domain since 2024 and the open-access museums hold only a handful of his prints, which is why there are so few here. Even a few are worth a long look: the way a pencil line can carry a whole cathedral, and the way thousands of marks sit inside a design that still reads from across the room.