Yacht Tavern, Erith
- Catalogue number
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SO 0060
- Artist
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Francis Seymour Haden
- Date
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1865
- Medium
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Etching and drypoint
- Catalogues
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Drake 101, Schnidermann 103
- State
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iii/iii
Subject
The only published state of this plate with much of the original composition, which originally depicted a female figure - probably Whistler's partner Joanne Heffernan - in the extreme right foreground and another crinolined female figure to the bottom left of the plate, now all burnished out. These earlier states of the plate seem to be a response to works by Whistler such as (the painting) Wapping (1864) and (the etching) Rotherhithe (1860-70, SO 0021). This plate and SO 0061 were begun on an excursion that Haden undertook with the French painter and etcher Charles-François Daubigny in 1865. Haden has included Daubigny's name and that of the French design historian and critic Philippe Burty on the signs of workshops in the middle distance.
History
Purchased unframed together with SO 0061. A detached label included in the sale states the following: Seaside Art Gallery Nags Head, North Carolina, US. ‘YACHT TAVERN, ERITH, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Etching (H. 112, only published state). PROVENANCE: Christies, Wilbur L67, From the estate of the late Miss Daria Seymour Haden, granddaughter of the artist.’ from Ebay seller cloud9vintageandwaresllc on 15 August 2025, Order number:01-13466-64803.
