Mytton Hall
Artist
Sir Francis Seymour Haden
(English, 1818 - 1910)
Date1859
MediumDrypoint
DimensionsPlate: 4 7/8 × 10 7/16 inches (12.37 × 26.47 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number55-110/17
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryFifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 23-November 20, 1983, no. 23.
This rather spooky view of the doorway to a Tudor mansion recalls Victorian Romantic taste for olden times, medieval architecture and the days of chivalry. The deeply shadowed trees shrouding the doorway might suggest an appropriate setting for a ghost story!
Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 7, 1955;
Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.
[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933-1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: October 23 - November 20, 1983, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no. 23.
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