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The Boat House

Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
[1874 and later]

Medium/Technique Etching on zinc
Dimensions Platemark: 18.5 × 32.6 cm (7 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.8 × 43.3 cm (10 9/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson
Accession Number35.1191
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schneiderman (1983) 146, III; Harrington (1910) 156, First
DescriptionThe MFA's is state III.
This plate was further reduced and divided after printing to produce THE BOAT HOUSE (THE REDUCED PLATE) (No. 146A) and THE BOAT HOUSE, A FRAGMENT (No. 146B).
"This plate was done at Purfleet (vide [D] 122) [The Inn, Purfleet, Mo. 127 here] a place to which I often resort for an afternoon of fresh semi-sea air. On no occasion that I recollect have I ever been there without seeing the white horse which appears in the etching and which I understand is an old pensioner of Mr. Whitebreads, who lived hard by."
Schneiderman (1983) p. 297.
Signed On sheet in graphite: l.r. Seymour Haden
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 7/11/1935