A water meadow 1859
Francis Seymour Haden
* 1818 in London † 1910 in Alresfo
Etching. Size of sheet: 20.6 x 29.3 cm.
Inscribed in pencil 9236 and D20.
Literature: Schneiderman 23 IV/V.
Provenance: The artist's collector mark. (L.1048)
Fine impression with beautiful plate tone. Wide margins.
"The scene is of the Test, flowing near the market town of Romsey, before reaching nearby Southampton Bay. A letter from Haden to Frederick Goulding, May 7, 1901, refers to the printing of this plate: « Water Meadow in proof sent-just about right in every way-with the line of the distant trees a little darker (as in the proof away from the sun... Send me back all my precious proofs with the tirage ordered of them; and whenever you have nothing to do amuse yourself with the printing of Water Meadow till you are sick of the sight of it."
£ 550.-