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FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN (after J. M. W. Turner) Calais Pier.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black, 1874. 597x838 mm; 23 1/2x33 inches, wide margins. Fifth state (of 12), with the etched inscription "Etched by F. Seymour Haden after the picture by J. M. W. Turner," lower left. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, well-inked impression of this scarce etching.
Haden's (1818-1910) largest and most technically complex etching. The artist had a new intaglio printing press specially made to accomodate the scale of this oversize etching plate.
This etching is based on Joseph M. W. Turner's same-titled oil first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, 1803, and now at the National Gallery, London. Turner had experienced this scene of turbulent sea firsthand in 1802 during a trip abroad via Calais. Schneiderman 141.
