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The Turkish Bath, with One Figure
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (English, 1818–1910)
1865
Medium/Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Platemark: 17.2 × 10.1 cm (6 3/4 × 4 in.)
Sheet: 20 × 14.3 cm (7 7/8 × 5 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 20 × 14.3 cm (7 7/8 × 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number52.131
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman (1983) 114, V; Harrington (1910) 134
Description"Though called the Turkish bath this and [D] 118 [The Turkish Bath, with Two Figures, No. 115 here] are only studies of shampoers [sic]."
Haden was probably referring to the printing of the plate when he wrote to Goulding, May 14, 1901:
I agree with you about the browner "Turkish Bath". They are really splendid, and, as you say, will improve by age. I would, however, complete the tirage (of thirty in all) in an ink between the two. The surface of the plate being foul, it is easier to get a bright surface with the brown addition than with the sombre black, and this at once vitalizes and lights up the subject without causing it to stare out when hung up with others in a collection, as in the case of the very brown "Agamemnons" recently done. (Hardie, Goulding, 64).
Schneiderman (1983) p. 243.
Haden was probably referring to the printing of the plate when he wrote to Goulding, May 14, 1901:
I agree with you about the browner "Turkish Bath". They are really splendid, and, as you say, will improve by age. I would, however, complete the tirage (of thirty in all) in an ink between the two. The surface of the plate being foul, it is easier to get a bright surface with the brown addition than with the sombre black, and this at once vitalizes and lights up the subject without causing it to stare out when hung up with others in a collection, as in the case of the very brown "Agamemnons" recently done. (Hardie, Goulding, 64).
Schneiderman (1983) p. 243.
Signed
In plate: l.l. S. Haden; on sheet, in graphite, l.l.Seymour Haden
InscriptionsIn plate: l.l. S. Haden
ProvenanceMr. Louis A. Lebowich, Boston; by whom given to MFA, 2/14/1952