Calais Pier

Print

Milwaukee Public Library

Name/Title

Calais Pier

Type of Print

Etching

Collection

Artwork Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Francis Seymour Haden

Artist

J. M. W. Turner

Attribution

After a painting by

Date made

circa 1874

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Location

Lower right, below image.

Transcription

"Seymour Haden"

Material/Technique

Pencil

Notes

Internet research in 2025 indicated that other versions of this print have additional etched inscriptions, but Haden's signature in pencil was the only visible marking.

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Framed Size

Height

34-1/2 in

Width

42 in

Research Notes

Notes

"Haden's largest and most technically complex etching. The artist had a new intaglio printing press specially made to accommodate the scale of this oversize etching plate." "Many impressions which show changes are not of the whole plate, thus it is impossible to determine when changes were made to other areas of the plate. The difficulty is augmented because many impressions are only partially inked. If one could catalogue all the changes of state X and state XII, there may be at least 60 states."