Battersea Reach: Out of Whistler’s Window

Battersea Reach – Out of Whistler’s Window

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-110

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: 1863

State: 4/7

Size: 15.2 x 22.9 cm

Medium: Etching and Drypoint

Details Etching with drypoint. Black ink on very thin, laid paper. Inscription at top left ‘Old Chelsea, Seymour Haden 1863. Out of Whistler’s window’.
Description This impression was published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XVII (1864), 274.The view was taken from Whistler’s house in Chelsea looking out over the Thames towards Battersea railway bridge. The church is St Mary’s, Battersea. The two artists had a problematic relationship. Their friendship finally ended after Whistler pushed Haden through a plate-glass window following a series of arguments. This image, in terms of its composition and inclusion of a workman in the foreground, is reminiscent of Whistler’s work and demonstrates the initial closeness between the two artists.
Exhibited Dundee It is likely that this print was the one exhibited, as View from Whistler’s Window, at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1879 (West Gallery, No. 1177, no price) and either already in Orchar’s collection or subsequently bought by him. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1879, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Philippe Burty, ‘L’Oeuvre de M. Francis Seymour-Haden’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Vol.17, 1864, pp.271-87 (26)
  2. Philippe Burty, Catalogue of Haden’s Etchings in Études à l’eau-forte par M. Francis-Seymour Haden. Paris, Jules Claye, 1866 (28)
  3. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (45)
  4. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (52)
  5. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (48)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. Collection of Alexis Pencovic, San Francisco, California, USA
  3. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
  4. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, England, UK (3 impressions)
  5. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
  6. Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA
  7. Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
  8. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  9. Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  10. Collection of Louise Combes Seeber, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  11. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  12. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  13. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
  14. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  15. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  16. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  17. Staatliche Museum Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, West Germany
  18. Syracuse University Art Collections, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York, USA
  19. Standford University Museum of Art, Standford, California, USA
  20. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
  21. Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  22. Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

See Schneiderman for locations of other states.
References
  1. Rodney 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

 

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