BONE, SIR MUIRHEAD (1876– ), British painter and etcher, born at Glasgow on March 23, 1876, son of David Drum mond Bone, a journalist. He first studied architecture and then art in the evening classes of the Glasgow school of art. Being attracted by the picturesque aspect of buildings he executed draw ings of views in his native town. It is as an etcher whose method is that generally of dry-point and as a draughtsman with pencil, charcoal and sepia that Bone has become known. In 1899 he issued a Portfolio with etchings of Glasgow. He moved to London in 1901 where the exhibition of his works in 1903 established his fame. In 1904 ten of his dry-points were published by Obach. His work displays a devotion for every form of intricate scaf folding; thus his famous etching "The Great Gantry" (1906) is a study of Charing Cross railway station after the accident to the roof in 1905, with a network of scaffolding set up for reconstruc tion. This and his "Ayr Prison," "Building," "The Shot Tower," "Liberty's Clock" are among the finest things in dry-point. Dur ing the war he was appointed official artist at the western front and with the fleet. He was knighted in May He illustrated several books : Gertrude Bone's Children's Chil dren (190 7) and James Bone's The London Perambulator (1925). See Campbell Dodgon, Etchings and Drypoints by Muirhead Bone 0909).