Title: Thomas Haden of Derby ("Edwin")

Medium: Etching and drypoint on lightly toned laid paper

Date Of Execution: 1864

Dimensions: Sheet: 16-3/4 x 11-1/8" (42.5 x 28.3 cm.); Plate: 14 x 9-1/2" (35.56 x 24 cm.)

Signature: Signed and dated in the plate upper left; Titled "Thomas Haden of Derby / 1778" in the plate lower left

References And Exhibitions:

References: Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden (Devizes, England: Garten, 1997), 53 iii/V heavy reworking resulting in prominent burr at back of neck and elbow at right

H. N. Harrington, The Engraved Work of Seymour Haden, An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue (Liverpool: H. Young & Sons, 1910), 58 a/c

Included in Haden's "Etudes a l'eau-forte" (1866), this is one of his few portrait etchings. Based on a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby entitled "Edwin the Minstrel," the sitter, Thomas Haden of Derby, was the artist's grandfather.  Haden may have based his etching on a mezzotint reproduction of the painting.

Condition Notes:

An excellent impression with the burr printing strongly.

Price: (US) $950.00

Inventory Number: FA7387