17. Sir Francis Seymour Haden
(1818-1910)

Mytton Hall

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Haden, Mytton Hall

Mytton Hall

Etching and drypoint, 1859, 123 x 262 mm., Drake 13, Harrington 19, Schneiderman 19 iv/v (?). Superb impression on thin, tan laid paper with small margins, signed in pencil. The state, listed above as the fourth, seems to be between Schneiderman's third and fouth but with the borderlines. Mytton Hall is at Whalley near Blackburn, Lancashire. Haden used to stay there when he went salmon fishing in the river Ribble. Though hardly as celebrated as some, the plate is clearly among Haden's small masterpieces and the superb drypoint work is precisely what impressed and inspired Whistler to venture into that medium.