Twickenham Church

Twickenham Church

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-114

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: 1865

State: 4/5

Size: 13.3 x 21.3 cm

Medium: Etching and Drypoint

Details Etching with drypoint. Black ink on thin, possibly Japan, paper. Inscription bottom left ‘By Twickenham, S. Haden 1865’.
Description The scene depicts Twickenham Church and town on the banks of the River Thames. Haden was a surgeon who enjoyed etching for leisure. He often carried a small copper plate and etching needle in his pocket to record an impression en plein air if inspiration struck.
Exhibited Dundee It is likely that this print was the one exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1880 (Fourth Gallery, No. 883, no price) and either already in Orchar’s collection or subsequently bought by him. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1880, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (95)
  2. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (107)
  3. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (98)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  2. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. Collection of Alexis Pencovic, San Francisco, California, USA
  4. City of Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
  5. Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
  6. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, England, UK
  7. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  8. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, USA
  9. Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middlestown, Connecticut, USA
  10. Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
  11. Derby City Council Museums and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, UK
  12. Collection of D.S. Whitelegge, UK
  13. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
  14. Hunterian Musuem and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  15. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
  16. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  17. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  18. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, USA
  19. New York Public Library, New York, USA (2 impressions)
  20. Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA
  21. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  22. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  23. Collection of Mr & Mrs Richard S. Schneiderman, Georgia, USA
  24. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA (2 impressions)
  25. Collection of Dr. S. William Pelletier, Georgia, USA
  26. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
  27. Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  28. University of Minnesota, University Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  29. The Auckland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  30. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  31. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  32. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
  33. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

See Schneiderman for locations of earlier 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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