Thames Fishermen No 1

Thames Fishermen, No. 1

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-112

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: 1859

State: 4/4

Size: 14.6 x 21.6 cm

Medium: Drypoint with Etching

Details Drypoint with etching. Black ink. Paper appears antique – likely wove; possibly Ivory Japanese paper.
Description The Thames, west of London, with two fishermen in the immediate foreground. Inscription in the bottom left ‘On the Thames, F.S. Haden 1859’. Haden would use quite a wide range of papers in his etchings and it can be difficult to identify specific types. He typically used laid or wove, or India and Japan paper. Early proofs were often printed on quite thick paper – likely as this was hardwearing. Final proofs were typically on quite thin laid papers – these he called antique or verger. For more information see Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Philippe Burty, ‘L’Oeuvre de M. Francis Seymour-Haden’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Vol.17, 1864, pp.271-87 (5)
  2. Philippe Burty, Catalogue of Haden’s Etchings in Études à l’eau-forte par M. Francis-Seymour Haden. Jules Claye, Paris, 1866 (7)
  3. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (11)
  4. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (11)
  5. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (18)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  2. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  3. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  4. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
  5. Staatliche Museum Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, West Germany

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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