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A water meadow
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1859
Medium/Technique
Etching on copper
Dimensions
Platemark: 15 × 22.6 cm (5 7/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 21.9 × 27.5 cm (8 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 21.9 × 27.5 cm (8 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Nathaniel T. Kidder
Accession Number38.1453
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman (1983) 23, IV; Harrington (1910) 21
DescriptionThis plate and On the Test (No. 24) were done on the same day, this one at noon, the other later in the evening. The scene is of the Test, flowing near the market town of Romsey, before reaching nearby Southampton Bay.
A letter from Haden to Frederick Goulding, May 7, 1901, refers to the printing of this plate: "Water Meadow in proof sent - just about right in every way - with the line of distant trees a little darker (as in the proof) away from the sun....Send me back all my precious proofs with the triage ordered of them; and whenever you have nothing to do amuse yourself with the printing of Water Meadow till you are sick of the sight of it."
"I like this plate which is saying a great deal."
Schneiderman (1983), p. 83.
A letter from Haden to Frederick Goulding, May 7, 1901, refers to the printing of this plate: "Water Meadow in proof sent - just about right in every way - with the line of distant trees a little darker (as in the proof) away from the sun....Send me back all my precious proofs with the triage ordered of them; and whenever you have nothing to do amuse yourself with the printing of Water Meadow till you are sick of the sight of it."
"I like this plate which is saying a great deal."
Schneiderman (1983), p. 83.
Signed
on sheet l.r. Seymour Haden
ProvenanceNathaniel T. Kidder, Boston, MA by bequest to MFA 10/13/1938