Tomb of Porsenna 1844 Sir Francis Seymour Haden Seymour Haden was the unlikely combination of a surgeon and an etcher. Although he pursued a very successful medical career, he is mostly remembered for his etched work as well as for his writings on etching. He was one of a group of artists, including James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), whose passionate interest in the medium led to the so-called etching revival, a period that lasted well into the twentieth century. The extolling of etching for its inherent spontaneous qualities reached its pinnacle during this time. While the line of the etching needle, Haden wrote, was "free, expressive, full of vivacity," that of the burin was "cold, constrained, uninteresting," and "without identity."Trees at left; small figures at left on hill and at center on a street; buildings in background and at right."Identified as the Tomb of Porsenna from Pliny (Nat. hist, XXXVI, 19, 4) this architectural ruin in Chiusi, in th

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Tomb of Porsenna 1844 Sir Francis Seymour Haden Seymour Haden was the unlikely combination of a surgeon and an etcher. Although he pursued a very successful medical career, he is mostly remembered for his etched work as well as for his writings on etching. He was one of a group of artists, including James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), whose passionate interest in the medium led to the so-called etching revival, a period that lasted well into the twentieth century. The extolling of etching for its inherent spontaneous qualities reached its pinnacle during this time. While the line of the etching needle, Haden wrote, was "free, expressive, full of vivacity," that of the burin was "cold, constrained, uninteresting," and "without identity."Trees at left; small figures at left on hill and at center on a street; buildings in background and at right."Identified as the Tomb of Porsenna from Pliny (Nat. hist, XXXVI, 19, 4) this architectural ruin in Chiusi, in th

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