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Grim Spain (The Walls of Burgos)
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Grim Spain
Grim Spain (The Walls of Burgos)
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1877
Medium/Technique
Etching on copper
Dimensions
Platemark: 14.8 × 22.3 cm (5 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 × 31.7 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 24.1 × 31.7 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Gift of Mrs. Ashton Sanborn
Accession Number56.221
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman (1983) 173, I; Drake 186
DescriptionThe cancelled plate is in G. de Smet, The Netherlands.
This and the following eleven plates (Nos. 173 - 284) were drawn during a visit to Spain and Portugal with Sir John Charles Robinson.
"The bones of the English besiegers of Burgos under Wellington still lie embodied around the town."
Schneiderman (1983) 173 p. 337.
This and the following eleven plates (Nos. 173 - 284) were drawn during a visit to Spain and Portugal with Sir John Charles Robinson.
"The bones of the English besiegers of Burgos under Wellington still lie embodied around the town."
Schneiderman (1983) 173 p. 337.
Signed
In plate: l.l. Seymour Haden 1877.
InscriptionsOn sheet: in graphite: l.l. Burgos Friend ??t (??); l.r. D. 168 I