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L'Écluse d' Egham
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Egham Lock
L'Écluse d' Egham
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1859 and later
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Platemark: 15 × 22.4 cm (5 7/8 × 8 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 19.5 × 26.2 cm (7 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 19.5 × 26.2 cm (7 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number50.203
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman (1983) 21, III; Harrington (1910) 16, II
DescriptionAn open lock gate spans the river Thames which appears turbulent because of the flooding through an unseen gate on the right side of the scene. The pool is enclosed in the immediate foreground by campshedding, and on the left by a reedy bank in drypoint which sweeps to the background in the middle left. The sky appears stormy and there are faint horizontal lines between the upper and middle shadows of the tree in the water above the center of the plate.
Published in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XVII (1864), 358. Additional work in reeds and water at center left. With the inscription Egham Lock, Seymour Haden l.l.
Schneiderman (1983), p. 77.
Published in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XVII (1864), 358. Additional work in reeds and water at center left. With the inscription Egham Lock, Seymour Haden l.l.
Schneiderman (1983), p. 77.
Signed
On sheet: l.r. Seymour Hayden
ProvenanceMr. Louis A. Lebowich, Boston; by whom given to MFA, 2/9/1950