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L'Entrée du Château de Mytton (Lancashire)
Mytton Hall (Lancashire)
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Mytton Hall
L'Entrée du Château de Mytton (Lancashire)
Mytton Hall (Lancashire)
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1859
Medium/Technique
Drypoint
Dimensions
Platemark: 12 × 26.3 cm (4 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 × 38.7 cm (8 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 × 38.7 cm (8 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Nathaniel T. Kidder
Accession Number38.1451
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman (1983) 19, IV; Harrington (1910) 14
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.
Schneiderman (1983), p. 71.
Signed
On sheet, below plate l.r. Seymour Haden in pencil
InscriptionsIn plate: l.r. Seymour Hayden 1859; below plate: l.r. in pencil Seymour Hayden; on sheet l.r. 3; l.l.13
ProvenanceNathaniel T. Kidder, Boston, MA by bequest to MFA 10/13/1938