Yacht Tavern, Erith

Yacht Tavern, Erith

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-103

Artist: Haden, Francis Seymour

Date: 1865

State: 1/4

Size: 24.1 x 38.1 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching on zinc. Black ink on thin, possibly antique, paper. The signboards read, from left to right, ‘Daubigny ded.’, ‘Hind Auctioneer. General Outfit.’, ‘Crow E.N.T. Delâtre’, ‘P. Burt y, Paris’. Inscription along bottom left ‘Erith, from the Balcony of the Yalcht [sic] Tavern Aug. 1865. Etched on Zinc’.
Description An extremely rare piece. Later impressions include the signature ‘Seymour Haden’ on the rail of the balcony and most of the figures and ships removed. Erith is located on the south bank of the Thames, almost twelve miles east of London.’This … [was] done on the same day in company with Monsieur Daubigny the eminent French landscape painter’. 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.225.

In the late 1840s and 1850s Erith became known as a holiday resort for day-trippers from London. It was also an important area for shipping and industry and this duality perhaps inspired this realist view of the Thames. Charles-François Daubigny was an important painter of the Barbizon School and an influence on the Impressionists.
Exhibited Dundee It is likely that this print was the one exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1879 (Fourth Gallery, No. 1175, 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. Sir William Drake, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880. (101)
  2. H. Nazeby Harrington, The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons, 1910 (112)
  3. Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983 (103)
Other Collections According to Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1983.

  1. New York Public Library, New York, 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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