
Not on display
- Artist
- James Duffield Harding 1797 or 98–1863
- Medium
- Chalk and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 270 × 384 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Art Fund (Herbert Powell Bequest) 1967
- Reference
- T00996
Display caption
The son of a drawing-master living in Deptford, London, Harding was taught
by Samuel Prout before being apprenticed to an engraver. He abandoned engraving after a year and devoted himself to painting in watercolour, teaching and lithography. In 1824 Harding made the first of several trips to Italy, and followed Prout in specialising in the continental picturesque.
Harding became the foremost drawing-master of his day; John Ruskin was among his pupils in the 1840s. He was well-known for his illustrations in the Landscape Annual as well as for the lithographs he made for his own published portfolios and manuals.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
James Duffield Harding 1798–1863
T00996 Twickenham 1839
Inscribed Twickenham Oct. ‘14 1839’ b.l.
Black chalk and watercolour on buff paper, 10¿ x 15¿ (27 x 38.4).
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund from the Herbert Powell Bequest 1967.
Coll: Herbert Powell, entrusted to the N.A.-C.F. 1929.
Exh: see Atkins T00964.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1967–1968, London 1968.
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