About etching : Part I. Notes by Mr. Seymour Haden on a collection of etchings and engravings by the great masters, lent by him to the Fine Art Society to illustrate the subject of etching. Part II. An annotated catalogue of the examples exhibited of etchers and painter-engravers' work
A London exhibition catalogue of 1879 by the surgeon and etcher Francis Seymour Haden, written for the Fine Art Society to accompany a lent collection of etchings and engravings by old masters. The pictures are reproduced plates: a self-portrait-style etching of a man in a plumed cap and fur-trimmed cloak, a loose tangled landscape of trees and a rearing figure, a faint woodland scene with a ghosted title overprint, and a pale half-length portrait of a seated figure in a ruff-like collar, showing how etched line builds tone, shadow and texture from fine hatching.
