Mytton Hall

Catalogue number: SO 0077
Artist: Francis Seymour Haden
Printer: Auguste Delâtre
Date: 1859
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 263 x 123 mm
Catalogues: Schneidermann 19
State: V/V

Subject

The subject is Mytton Hall, a fifteenth-century mansion in Lancashire. Francis Seymour Haden stayed at Mytton Hall on several occasions while pursuing his passion for salmon fishing on the nearby River Ribble. It is significant in the context of The Surviving Object as one of five etchings by Seymour Haden that can be identified in a stereoscopic photograph by Clementina Hawarden (Isabella Grace Maude and Clementina Maude at 5 Princes Gardens, V&A accession no.457:499-1968) together with Egham (SO 0100), Out of the Study Window (SO0040), Thames Fishermen No.1 and A By-Road in Tipperary. The arrangement also included a photograph by Hawarden's mentor Oscar Reijlander and an unidentified picture appearing to represent a female figure. Haden was socially connected to the Hawardens and produced several etchings, including A By-Road in Tipperary, at Viscount Hawarden's country house at Dundrum in Cashel, Tipperary.

History

Purchased online at auction from Veilinggebouw de Zwann, Amsterdam , Netherlands October 23, 2025.