New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-25
r. SEYMOUR H4DENS LATLST U0RE.

Mr.. 7. Sevmour Haden has lately reproduced IN
mezzotint Turner's painting of CALAIS Pier. The
following extract from private letter written by
Mr. Haden to a friend IN this city gives his reasons
for undertaking tins line Of work, and his erti-
mate of the result:
Having revived etching want 20 revive the Older
and better forms mcZLOtnt ana have determined 10
s.eud ear two in the process My idea Is to take
two three OF The works Of Turner which lend them
best f0f the purpose ana see whether j. no pos
s1le I'D reproduce. not 80 much the ac Which, now
ever. ~ Of course essential, IS ,thOse hhcr
and more subtle qlHlues Wnth c1pfII.y
belong % him Turn IN Iis earlier and best time Re-
gard ~ ne Shakespeare o. landscape ar me Stly oI
Turner at tht period II lA'TIloIr j." nv 'o 'ul ~,
Nature her grand"st moods. Every p1'sat 0I such
WORK &, a. much q alton and poem as the finest
passage IN nature tud INC CONGRATULATIONS OF sun P''
sage series of surprises which re>ol es it-et into
I.uro,l lcug picture finding your way into mans
mind sl sIuciuz MS various modes of expression the
Nov tli. Won will say exactly what The en.rarer,
the very man nave been denOunclns docs. Ni on O
Ia Thai !. exactly what he has not been doing, aud
WHICH, u1yl ~ anu ~ rnnld have seen HIM inns en-
him. ought to prove 10 nn iha u II NOT thc en-
10, ~, bt he W. never abused Marc Antono
brcsu~c thinking, not OF Ms Mes but OF Tue
master mind which suggested them and AZ Tar ~ lines
could go Was trying % seize h- intention and posses
bscf of hs shirt. NOW Turner u To me wal Kap1deI
VS. 3 Marc Antonio. and This much more mat WINE me
h., Al bf of E.phsei were toward the perfection ~
arJrfuisrn tie highest flights OF Turner were rather
toward a direct Identification Of himself WIN NAllre'
30 having myself lived with Nature for all these years Ia
hct moods now propose 20 visit her win IieI
I'M Def re0r The practical end N II al Wli pe tna'
soipeiody VIII gel two three mezzOunt engiayngs eA
.cIfe not In mechanical and slaylsb spirit Whlth
nave rcn euouncing hut "a the spirit OF student ana
an artist. however humble a one. ..-,-, 800,
me rrLzotiuf -. Calais Pier Is already nnished ahu
,hers are incidents connection with II whion VIII inter-
49, ou one il that since the meZhottnt h1e begun 70 DC
ted about he demand for the etching fs revived or
,,ther ba- ..umed active form. demand az the
re king that there are now no more 70 De b"
a. ~ the mrZzOtin the first proof OF " hahgs DrioIe
ma, write It's q very curious WORK ailc ABOUT az un
~. n,odern meZzotnt a. you can possibly HhAsIHo'
tba IL TO say the technique goes Tor next W ~
~ sbold thnk In about the lAsi inlns MechAho
,ST.ver gOuld like. while the painterke laiIy ~ ~" =,
90 / am auite wrong. beyond what hii nnP go
arbieVe cannot myself exactly say IN "nsV sa ~,
Qualify consists hut believe IL 20 he IN mDts sups
dato,. Than would 10 an eneraVer ana ~ uei
srral myssry tho exact modS 0perand. ~ .ne , a.
~. ~ vbich IA not apparent even 70 mysr' anu n-n
90 sresk taken me hy surprise III this proof ~ s ,
very much TOO black. but even IN lts Pfes, S.a Zen
NAV Gee one cloud through another IN Nay .1 & ~
me a exalted opinion not OF This WORK S,s the
Inc material and OF it, capacity 70 rena1 Sna' ..s
,.,ad brewing and churuing ana sirusFS y" 'id h.
Altogether am cannot SAY ausned, Io a al a.
,rross,,e bnt interested and there my account VI ="
laLs pleI shall stoY.