A By-Road in Tipperary

Seymour Haden was the unlikely combination of a surgeon and an etcher. Although he pursued a very successful medical career, he is mostly remembered for his etched work as well as for his writings on etching. He was one of a group of artists, including James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), whose passionate interest in the medium led to the so-called etching revival, a period that lasted well into the twentieth century. The extolling of etching for its inherent spontaneous qualities reached its pinnacle during this time. While the line of the etching needle, Haden wrote, was "free, expressive, full of vivacity," that of the burin was "cold, constrained, uninteresting," and "without identity."
A pathway through trees; clearing in foreground.
"State V (H2). The cart has been removed and replaced by work in foliage; the foliage on the left and center has been removed and the trees are bare. There is rust, resembling foul-biting, in the left and right edges and at the bottom center, especially at top and bottom corners. Slight additional drypoints work in the background and on the tree trunks. Signature and date rewritten and now appears à double trait."
[Source: Schneiderman, p. 97]
"Published State: Second.-The cart has disappeared, and the parts foliated on the left are now bare. Later impressions of the Second State have the drypoint lines in the foreground to the right removed, and also signs of the removal of rust in right lower corner. The plate (done in the park of Viscount Hawarden at Dundrum) had been forgotten, and was found, two or three years after its production, in a stable, fortunately not much damaged. About forty impressions in all. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1861."
[Source: Harrington, p. 14]