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FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN Whistler's House, Old Chelsea.
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 1863. 175x334 mm; 6 7/8x13 1/8 inches, small margins. Fifth state (of 7). Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb impression.
With--The Three Sisters, etching and drypoint, 1868. 141x212 mm; 5 1/2x8 3/8 inches, wide margins. Fourth state (of 5). Signed in pencil, lower right. Laid down.
Whistler was living at a house at 7 Lindsey Row, Chelsea, at the time Haden made this etching. Both he and Whistler made etched views from this house across the Thames to Battersea at around the same time (early impressions of Haden's Battersea Reach, Schneiderman 48, have the inscription 'Out of Whistler's Window' in the upper left corner).
Whistler's mistress, Joanna Hiffernan, lived with him at Lindsey Row through the winter of 1863. She left the house when Whistler's mother Anna arrived in London to stay with her son and later returned after the mother had been sent to a resort in the south of England for her health. Schneiderman 50 and 119.
