Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 x 12 1/2 inches (19.6 x 31.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite in Francis Seymour Haden's hand, lower left: "It is undoubtedly, I find, | a trial of Combe Bottom - | must be the only one | S. H."; inscribed in graphite in Francis Seymour Haden's hand, lower center: "I have not the least [?remembering] of this plate. It is of the same size + | was | probably | done at the same time as [?the] [?Welsh] plate and abandoned - I hope the plate does not exist | S. H."; inscribed in graphite in Howard Mansfield's hand, lower left: "[Written in 1892.] | H.M."; inscribed in graphite in Howard Mansfield's hand, lower center to lower right: "It bears the date and is of the same size of the Combe Bottom plate; and | so closely represents the same subject that it seems to me possibly an early state of that plate. | The Welsh plates were done in 1864. | H.M."; inscribed in graphite in Howard Mansfield's hand, lower right: "[Written in 1889] | H.M."; inscribed in graphite in Howard Mansfield's hand, lower right: "Not described"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield