Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-109
Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour
Date: 1859
State: 1/2
Size: 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Medium: Etching and Drypoint
Details | Etching and drypoint. Black ink on cream laid paper. Bottom left ‘S. Haden 1859’. |
Description | The scene is likely a view of one of the brooks which flowed into the Multeen River at the Viscount of Hawarden’s estate at Dundrum, County Tipperary, Ireland. Haden claimed it to be; ‘The best piece of foliage work, I think I have ever done. Like others of the earlier plates, however, it was laid aside after four impressions had been printed and when taken up again was past recovery from oxidation. Plate destroyed after six impressions.’ Quote taken from Haden’s own handwritten annotations of Sir William Drake’s A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. As cited in Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983, p.93. According to Schneiderman only four impressions were taken from this plate before it was destroyed. |
Exhibited Dundee | It is likely that this print was the one exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1879 (West Gallery, No. 1174, 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. |
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Other Collections | According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.
See Schneiderman for locations of later states. |
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