Dusty millers

Dusty millers

Item Information

Title:
Dusty millers
Description:
Two men loading a horse-drawn cart are at left in middle ground. Behind them a mill. A man is fishing at center and lightly drawn trees are in the background at right. Foliage is in the foreground.
Artist:
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
Name on Item:
Seymour Haden
Date:
[ca. 1877]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Drypoints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Mills
Carts & wagons
Fishermen
Fishing
Extent:
1 print : etching and drypoint on copper ; plate mark 14 x 22 cm
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Schneiderman 172; Harrington 182
Additional information accompanying item: The palings are completed, the lines of the three windows are strengthened, and the cart and the sacks are re-drawn, the front wheel of the cart being larger in size. The man at the stile has no fishing rod.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Dated: 1877 and later
Notes (citation):
Schneiderman, Richard S. (Richard Steven). "A catalogue raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden." Robin Garton Ltd., 1983, London.
Harrington, Henry Nazeby. "The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. : an illustrated and descriptive catalogue." H. Young & Sons, 1910, Liverpool.
Notes (object):
Fourth state (Harrington 1). New etched work defines the three windows above the heads of men in the wagon; burnishing of faint drypoint lines at the right of horse's head, behind its back and near wagon's wheels. Re-etching of sacks in wagon and the front wheel, which reaches top of wagon. There is foul-bite on the foreground parapet.
Identifier:
18_05_000074
W. 629 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000033999