Windmill Hill No. 1

Windmill Hill (No. 1)

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-116

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: October 1877 and later

State: 2/5

Size: 14.9 x 22.5 cm

Medium: Drypoint

Details Drypoint on copper. Black ink on ivory coloured paper.
Description According to Haden: ‘Windmill Hill is a high common near Swanage which has long served as a landmark for vessels at sea. This and [the following plate] were all done within a fortnight in the immediate neighbourhood of Swanage in [Dorset]’. 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.305.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (146)
  2. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (163)
  3. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (152)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, England, UK

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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