Greenwich

Greenwich

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-101

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: 1879-80

State: 7/9

Size: 33.7 x 52.1 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. Black ink on thick, possibly wove, paper. Inscription bottom left ‘Seymour Haden 1879’.
Description One of Haden’s largest prints, the subject depicts the twin domes of The Royal Hospital at Greenwich. Haden liked to work directly from nature completing the initial plate in a day and often suggesting form by a minimum of lines. He believed that swift execution resulted in a much stronger picture and would leave large areas of the plate untouched.
Exhibited Dundee This print was exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1881 (Fourth Gallery, No. 811, no price) it was marked as ‘Property of J. G. Orchar, Esq.’. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1881, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum.

The etching had previously been exhibited at the Kirkcaldy Fine Art Exhibition of 1880 as Greenwich and marked as ‘lent by J.G. Orchar’ (No. 709). The Illustrated Catalogue of the Ninth Annual Kirkcaldy Fine Art Exhibition of 1880. National Art Library, London.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (184)
  2. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (208 & 207)
  3. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (187)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. Collection of Alexis Pencovic, San Francisco, California, USA
  2. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, England, UK
  3. Collection of Louise Combes Seeber, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  4. New York Public Library, New York, USA
  5. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 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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