The Towing Path
Date1864
MediumEtching and drypoint
Dimensionsplate: 5 7/16 × 8 3/8 in. (13.8 × 21.3 cm)
sheet: 6 7/16 × 9 3/8 in. (16.4 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940
Object number1940-11.189
Label TextSeymour Hayden was trained as a surgeon, but was an integral figure in the "Etching Revival" that took place in England in the 1860s. In 1864, with the help of the French critic Philippe Burty, he published a portfolio of landscape etchings, of which this scene was one. The view is just below Hampton Court, from the towpath which runs along the Thames from Hampton to Richmond. The figure at right, probably his daughter Annie, adds a sense of scale, a technique utilized by Rembrandt, whose etchings Haden admired and collected. (msf)
