Cleveland Museum of Art

Egham

Francis Seymour Haden

Date

1859

Medium

etching and drypoint

Culture

England, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Francis Seymour Haden worked professionally as a surgeon, experimenting avidly with etching in his spare time. He took up the medium while it was experiencing a major revival of interest in London, and he quickly developed an artistic reputation that outweighed his medical work. Most of Haden’s prints were landscapes. In this work, he cleanly wiped ink from the plate to suggest the sun’s bright light and reflection over the river.

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