The Mouth of a Brook; No. 1

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.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Philippe Burty, ‘L’Oeuvre de M. Francis Seymour-Haden’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Vol.17, 1864, pp.271-87 (14)
  2. Philippe Burty, Catalogue of Haden’s Etchings in Études à l’eau-forte par M. Francis-Seymour Haden. Paris, Jules Claye, 1866 (16)
  3. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (24)
  4. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (26)
  5. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (28)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  2. New York Public Library, New York, USA
  3. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

See Schneiderman for locations of later 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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