Windmill Hill No.2, by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Eng., (1818-1910) Drawing rural architecture and nature

rural architecture and nature

8-3/4 x 11-13/16

This is the finished preparatory drawing for Lazzell's celebrated white line color woodcut "The Red Scow"

with it's subtle evocation of light playing over the features of Chauncey Ryder's contemplative face in this excellent portrait need no apology

best known for his later experimental abstract painterly prints

Windmill Hill No.2, by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Eng., (1818-1910) Drawing rural architecture and natureDrypoint, 1877, S. 153, 4th. state of 5, 5 15 16 x 8 7 8, a small fox mark to outlined tree in background at far right, very faint light fading and pale trace of mat line, signed and dated 1877 in the plate only by Haden, at lower left, but annotated and signed in pencil just below the plate at left by Haden's printer Goulding,: "I should select this proof as a good one F. Goulding, Printer", on antique thin cream laid paper with a partial watermark