Egham

Catalogue number: SO0101
Artist: Francis Seymour Haden
Printer: Auguste Delâtre
Date: 1859
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 200 x 125 mm
Catalogues: Harrington 12, Schneidermann 15
State: VI/X
Publication: Etudes à l’eau-forte

Subject

One of two views of the River Thames at Egham that Haden began on the same day in 1859, the other being Egham Lock (1859). At this time, Haden and his brother-in-law Whistler were discussing the project ‘The Thames from its Source to the Sea' with Auguste Delâtre. An early impression of Egham was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860, concurrently with Whistler's first Academy painting At the Piano which depicted Haden's wife Deborah and his daughter Annie (who is also the subject of Whistler's etching SO 0043 and is probably one of the distant group seen in Greenwich Park SO 0042). Egham is also one of the five Haden etchings visible in Clementina Hawarden's stereoscopic photograph Isabella Grace Maude and Clementina Maude at 5 Princes Gardens, V&A accession no.457:499-1968.

The sheet features an unknown collectors stamp bottom left that includes the arms of the city of Amsterdam.

History

Purchased from Elizabeth Harvey-Lee on 10 March 2026.