Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, PA.
72.1.232
Hands Etching - Ô Laborum
1865 (Date created)
Ink
Etching;Drypoint
Prints
10.875 in W
x
7.562 in H
(Paper)
British
Title plate for Haden's Études à l'eau-forte [Studies in etching], published in 1866. The artist's hands are working on an etching plate, with etching tools and needles on the side. The inscription "O Laborum Dulce Lenimen" is from Horace's first Ode, and can be translated as "the sweet success of labor" or as "o sweet solace of labor" (in reference of Apollo's lyre).
In Collection
Elizabeth Helsinger et al., "The "Writing" of Modern Life. The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940", Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2008, p. 33, cat. 18, fig. 44.
Richard S. Schneiderman, "A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden", 1968, cat. 84.
Richard S. Schneiderman, "A Catalogue Raisonné of the prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden", 1968, cat. 84.
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