_By-road in Tipperary_ is the largest and most highly prized of his woodland plates and well deserves the reputation it so long has enjoyed. Structurally the trees are very fine, both as to branch and stem drawing; and, as in the two plates of _Kensington Gardens_, the suggestion of foliage with the light filtering through the leaves is quite beautiful. _Sunset in Ireland_ is a plate which the artist, the collector, and the general public all unite in praising. “_That_ is the plate,” said Seymour Haden, shortly before his death, “which, in years to come, will fetch the enormous prices!” And his prophecy has come true. Both in its earlier states, less rich in burr, with a luminous evening effect, and in the later and darker impressions, it is “a thing of beauty”--one of the most remarkable landscape plates of modern times, wherein the artist has captured, for once, all the poetry and melancholy sentiment of the twilight hour. _Sawley Abbey_, on the River Ribble in Lancashire, has, to some of us, however, a “swing” and pattern, which make of it a better and more manly plate. It must be seen in an early state to be adequately judged. For some inexplicable reason the artist saw fit later to “clean up” the sky and all the foreground to the right, leaving the plate cold, empty, and almost meaningless. _Nine Barrow Down_, a dry-point, is in Haden’s happiest vein. It is instinct with that priceless quality, the “art which conceals art,” and is so seeming simple that one may readily forget that its “simplicity” is the result of a most rigid selection of the essential lines, guided by the knowledge of a lifetime. There is a growing tendency among the younger and more “advanced” collectors to belittle Seymour Haden and his work. Unquestionably there are many etchings which fall far short of his best; but _at his best_, in the dozen or two plates of which he himself approved, he towers far above any of his contemporaries, and there seems little likelihood of his supremacy in landscape being seriously threatened. [Illustration: J. A. McN. WHISTLER. ZAANDAM (First State) Size of the original etching, 5⅛ × 8⅝ inches In the Collection of Howard Mansfield, Esq.] [Illustration: REMBRANDT. VIEW OF AMSTERDAM FROM THE EAST Size of the original etching, 4⅛ × 5⅞ inches In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]