The Towing Path
- Catalogue number
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SO 0022
- Artist
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Francis Seymour Haden
- Printer
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Auguste Delâtre
- Date
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1864
- Medium
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Etching
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
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215 x 141 mm
- Catalogues
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Herrington 76, Schneiderman 72
- State
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VII/XVII
- Publication
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Études à L’eau Forte (Etching Studies), 1865
Subject
The River Thames near Hampton Court. The view is from either from The Barge Walk looking towards Thames Ditton Island or possibly from the Garden Walk of Hampton Court Palace looking towards Ash Island near Molesey. A female figure on the tow path is accompanied by a small dog. This figure may well be copied from a photograph by Lady Clementina Hawarden. Haden and the Hawardens were closely socially connected throughout the early 1860s, during the time when Lady Hawarden's made most of her work. Haden copied her elements of Hawarden's photographs in his etchings both during the photographer's lifetime and, more frequently, in the period immediately after her death in January 1865.
Inscribed in the plate: Hampton Court (partially erased) lower left, The Towing Path lower right, Seymour Haden 1864 top right. Signed in pencil outside the plate: Seymour Haden. Annotated at the bottom edge of the sheet: 2392, 1st State, D 67, Towing Path.
Printing
Probably printed by Auguste Delâtre in Paris between 1865-66 as part of the portfolio Études à L’eau Forte (1865).
History
Purchased from New England Art Exchange, March 2024.
