Calais Harbour

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-100

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: Before January 11, 1874, and later

State: 4/12

Size: 58.4 x 82.6 cm

Medium: Etching and Drypoint

Alternative Title(s) Calais Pier, After Turner
Details Etching with drypoint and (later impressions) mezzotint. Black ink on thick, possibly wove, paper. Reproductive etching. Inscription bottom right ‘Seymour Haden’.
Description A difficult impression to identify as Haden produced so many prints from this plate. It was a rare excursion into ‘reproductive printmaking’ for Haden. Simply put, this is a process where the etcher copies from an original work (usually a painting by another artist) rather than producing an original scene themselves.The source for the image was J.M.W. Turner’s painting Calais Pier, 1803 (National Gallery, London). Early prints were pulled by Frederick Goulding.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (140)
  2. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (157)
  3. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (141)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. New York Public Library, New York, USA
  2. Collection of Ruth E. Fine, Pennsylvania, USA

See Schneiderman for locations of other states.
References
  1. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge , Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  2. Garton and Co., British Printmakers 1855-1955. Wiltshire, Garton and Co., 1992
  3. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977
  4. Ian Mackenzie, British Prints: Dictionary and Price Guide. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1998

 

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