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Mytton Hall


L'Entrée du Chateau de Mytton (Lancashire)
Mytton Hall (Lancashire)
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1859

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 12.2 × 26.2 cm (4 13/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 15.3 × 28 cm (6 × 11 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP11791
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schneiderman (1983) 19; Harrington (1910) 14, First; Drake13
DescriptionMytton (Mitton) is at Whalley near Blackburn, and signifies "Mid-town," being situated between the rivers Hodder and Ribble. Mytton Hall is an old Henry VII house which Haden was in the habit of staying at for salmon fishing in the river Ribble ("Lancashire River") which runs past it.
Schneiderman (1983), p. 71.
Signed In plate: l.l. Seymour Haden 1859
InscriptionsIn plate: l.r. Seymour Haden 1859; On sheet: l.l.stamped H.F.S.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, N.Y.; date acquired: 1897