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L'Entrée du Châteaude Mytton (Lancashire)
Mytton Hall (Lancashire)
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Mytton Hall
L'Entrée du Châteaude Mytton (Lancashire)
Mytton Hall (Lancashire)
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1859
Medium/Technique
Drypoint
Dimensions
Platemark: 12.2 × 26.3 cm (4 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 15.4 × 28.3 cm (6 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 15.4 × 28.3 cm (6 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Horatio Greenough Curtis in memory of her husband Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number27.1361
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 plate: l.l. Seymour Haden 1859; lightly on sheet l.r. Seymour Haden in graphite
InscriptionsIn plate: l.l. Seymour Haden 1859
ProvenanceHoratio Greenough Curtis; Mrs. Horatio Greenough Curtis; bequeathed by her, June or July 1927, received September 1940.