seymour-haden-br-1818-1910-etching-collection
Lot 707
Seymour Haden (Br. 1818-1910), Etching Collection
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Consisting of (17) prints variously signed, signed in the plate or unsigned. Pencil signed works with sheet sizes are: "Brentford Ferry" (8 x 10.5 in.) (moderate foxing); "Harry Kelly's Putney" (6x 7.75 in.); "Kenarth" (6.75 x 8 in.); "On the Test" (7.75 x 10.75 in.); "Out of Study Window," initialed only (trimmed to 3.75 x10.25 in.) (moderate foxing); "Twickenham Church" (7.25 x 10.25 in.); "A Water Meadow" (7.25 x 10 in.). Works signed in the plate with sheet sizes are: "Dundrum River" (6 x 5.75 in.); "Evening" (9 x 5.5 in.); "Kensington Gardens" (13.5 x 10.25 in.); "Kidwelly Castle" (4.75 x 9 in.); "Marshes Opposite Ench" (15.25 x 18.75 in.) (lightstruck with some margin loss); "Nine Barrow Down" (7 x 10.25 in.); "Railway Enroachment" (6.75 x 9.5 in.); "Windmill Hill No. 1" (9 x 1.5 in.). Unsigned works are: "Amstelodamum" (6 x 7.5 in.); "Thames Ditton" (8.5 x 10.5 in.).

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, NC

Sir Francis Seymour Haden, a physician by training, became the foremost printmaker in Victorian England. Curiously, during the earlier phase of his artistic career, he lived and worked with his brother-in-law James McNeil Whistler.

$800 - 1,500