A major new National Galleries Scotland exhibition at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) puts on display in the capital the best examples of fine art printmaking from Scotland’s national collection, spanning five centuries.

Occupying the lower galleries of the RSA are about 100 artworks by some of the world’s most universally-revered artists, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Katsushika Hokusai (whose work is pictured), Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Bridget Riley and Paula Rego, including early woodcuts, such as Albrecht Dürer’s incredible Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, through the twentieth century (Edvard Munch, Kathe Kollwitz) and the punch of pop-art idols Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

The exhibition also displays, for the first time together, a range of new artworks acquired through the Iain Paul Fund, affording a unique opportunity to see art on loan from public and private collections, such as exceptional prints by Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Yinka Shonibare and Cornelia Parker, plus eminent Scottish printmakers such as Elizabeth Blackadder and Tessa Lynch. 

Admission is ticketed, on sale now from National Galleries Scotland (see panel, left).