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Amalfi


Petite Rue à Amalfi
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1858

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Platemark: 11.7 × 8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 × 14.2 cm (8 7/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot
Accession Number45.479
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schneiderman (1983) 8, III; Harrington (1910) 10
DescriptionAccording to Harrington this plate was etched in 1858 from a drawing (present whereabouts unknown) done in Italy in 1844. There is the possibility that the plate was worked on earlier. "Mr. Haden believes this was drawn on the plate in 1843-4, but is not sure whether it was bitten then or later."
Additional drypoint work on the left and right wall, and on various other parts of the plate, especially additional shading on the mountains seen between the arches.
Schneiderman (1983), p. 47.
InscriptionsIn plate l.r. Amalfi; on sheet b.c. Seymour Haden, b.c. MFA stamp with 36197 in center
ProvenanceMrs. Arthur Tracy Cabot, by bequest to MFA; 5/10/1945