Fulham

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-111

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: 1859 and later

State: 11/11

Size: 11.4 x 27.9 cm

Medium: Etching and Drypoint

Details Etching and drypoint. Black ink on thin antique paper. Bottom right “Fulham S.H.”
Description This impression was published in Haden’s Études à l’eau-forte (printed by August Delâtre, Paris and London, 1865-66). Although intended to be published in an edition of 250 only 180 copies were eventually printed. The church is All Saints Church, Fulham which is situated close to Putney Bridge (Old Putney Bridge can be seen in the etching) and on the banks of the Thames. The etching was drawn from the grounds of Fulham Palace which is the historic home of the Bishops of London.
Exhibited Dundee It is likely that this print was the one exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1879 (West Gallery, No. 1165, 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. Other Haden prints exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibitions which are not in The Orchar Collection include In Regent’s Park (1879 Exhibition, West Gallery, 1158, no price), Woodland Scene (1879 Exhibition, West Gallery, 1164, no price), A Bit of Moorland (1879 Exhibition, West Gallery, 1169, no price), River Scene (1879 Exhibition, West Gallery, 1170, no price) and On The Thames (1880 Exhibition, Fourth Gallery, 881, no price). Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogues 1879 & 1880, 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 (12)
  2. Philippe Burty, Catalogue of Haden’s Etchings in Études à l’eau-forte par M. Francis-Seymour Haden. Paris, Jules Claye, 1866 (14)
  3. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (18)
  4. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (19)
  5. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (22)
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. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  3. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  4. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, USA
  5. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  6. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
  7. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
  8. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
  9. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England, UK
  10. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, 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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