Newton Manor
Sir Francis Seymour Haden British
Not on view
Seymour Haden was the unlikely combination of a surgeon and an etcher. Although he pursued a very successful medical career, he is mostly remembered for his etched work as well as for his writings on etching. He was one of a group of artists, including James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), whose passionate interest in the medium led to the so-called etching revival, a period that lasted well into the twentieth century. The extolling of etching for its inherent spontaneous qualities reached its pinnacle during this time. While the line of the etching needle, Haden wrote, was "free, expressive, full of vivacity," that of the burin was "cold, constrained, uninteresting," and "without identity."
Unworked area in the foreground; at middle-distance, a manor house set among trees; in the background, mountain cliffs.
"State V (H1). The cliff nearest the yacht removed, thus the bay is extended beyond the dark cliffs and above and to the right of the stag."
[Source: Schneiderman, p. 325]
"First.-The cliff nearest to the yacht has been removed, and some shading by horizontal lines has been added in the middle distance to the right."
[Source: Harrington, p. 87]
