It will be noticed that, while in my former article I called him Sir Seymour Haden, in the present one I call him plain Mister. This was because it was after his return from America to England that Queen Victoria gave him his title, and although in London he had a large medical practice he never was even Doctor Haden. In England a surgeon, however eminent, is never addressed as Doctor.
Haden. An Early Riser
Engraved in pure mezzotint in 1897. To this plate and Sir Seymour’s mezzotint Grayling Fishing was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Size of the original mezzotint, 8⅞ × 11⅞ inches
Haden. Harlech
In Harlech the artist has first mezzotinted his composition and has then strengthened and defined the outlines with etched lines. This is the reverse of the method employed by Turner in the “Liber Studiorum.” Turner first etched the main lines of his composition and then finished the plate in mezzotint.
Size of the original engraving, 8⅞ × 12½ inches
This change to a title of nobility reminds me of a couplet in Thackeray’s fine Irish ballad, “Mr. Molony’s Account of the Ball”: