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. |
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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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