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Breaking up of the Agamemnon
1870
Francis Seymour Haden
1818-1910
English
Unknown
Etching and drypoint printed in brown ink on laid paper
Plate: 7 5/8 × 16 1/4 inches (19.4 × 41.3 cm) Sheet: 11 3/4 × 19 inches (29.8 × 48.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
21.63
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Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: Seymour Haden 1870
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left Inscribed, corner: 60 Inscribed, lower left, verso: C4001 | C2701 [crossed-out] | H145 Breaking up of the Agamemnon
Stamped, in black, lower left corner of plate: [artist's estate] (Lugt 1048) Stamped, in black, verso: [artist's signature] (Lugt 1227)
Provenance
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Harrington, H.N. The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E. Liverpool, 1910, p. 71, no. 145 I/II.
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Francis Seymour Haden, Breaking up of the Agamemnon, 1870, etching and drypoint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.63.
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