An exhibition, titled ‘Print Rebels’, recently opened at Bankside Gallery in London, celebrating the surgeon and etcher Francis Seymour Haden. Now almost forgotten, in 1880 Seymour Haden founded the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and, together with his American brother-in-law Whistler, launched the Etching Revival in Britain. The enthusiasm for prints among artists and collectors persisted right up until the Great Depression of 1929.
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