Whistler, His Followers and His Brother-In-Law
The Artistic Circle and the Artists Influenced by Him
The Artistic Circle and the Artists Influenced by Him
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Whistler, The Rag Gatherers
- Whistler, The Music Room
- Whistler, Drouet
- Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
- Whistler, Tatting
- Whistler, Old Putney Bridge
- Whistler, San Giorgio
- Whistler, The Bridge, Venice
- Whistler, Alderney Street
- Whistler, Regent's Quadrant
- Whistler, The Tyresmith
- Whistler, Grand Rue, Dieppe
- Whistler, Clockmaker's House
- Whistler, The Smith
- Whistler, Back of the Gaiety
- Haden, Mytton Hall
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Haden, Shere Mill Pond
- Haden, Sunset in Ireland
- Haden, The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon
- Keene, Portrait Mrs. Heseltine
- Greaves, Portrait of a Woman
- Roussel, Chelsea Palaces
- Roussel, Chelsea Children
- Roussel, Portrait Miss Austin
- Roussel, A Study by Lamplight
- Roussel, House in Green Park
- Way, Sailing Ship
- Sickert, Mother and Daughter
- Sickert, Mon Bon Dodo
- Winslow, Boat-Building Yards
- Addams, Little Market Place
- Anderson, Market Passage
- Bacher, Castello Quarter, Riva
- Menpes, Little Bridge, Amsterdam
- Menpes, Old Wooden House
- Short, George's Dock
- Weir, Coon Alley
- Hassam, The Little Church
- Pennell, Butcher's Row
- Pennell, St. Paul's
- Pennell, London Bridge
- Pennell, Tyburn
- Marin, Meaux Cathedral
- Marin, Market Place
- McBey, Antwerp
- McBey, The Silk Dress
- Leheutre, La Rochelle
- Leheutre, La Passerelle
- Jones, Workshop
- Winkler, Clay Street Hill
- Winkler, Low Tide
- Winkler, La Marchande Endormie
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21. Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910) The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon |
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The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon
Etching, 1870, 195 x 413 mm., Harrington 145 i/ii or trial proof e, Schneiderman 133 ix/xi.
A fine, strong impression of this famous plate on laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil, the image strongly but handsomely time toned. The Agamemnon was the last surviving wooden-hulled battle ship in the British navy and Haden's picture of her dismantling off the British coast near Greenwich, with the sun setting, exemplified an "end-of-the-line" theme that has had enduring appeal through the ages. The print, according to contemporary accounts, was both a critical and commercial smash hit, selling in astonishing (if not totally believable) numbers and it also begat imitators. Haden himself did a second version in mezzotint and Frank Brangwyn found at least three other ships whose "breakings-up" he commemorated in etchings.
