Abele and Oak, from The Park and the Forest
Medium
Lithograph in black, with gray tint from a second plate, on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image: 29.7 × 43.8 cm (11 3/4 × 17 1/4 in.); Sheet: 36.9 × 54.1 cm (14 9/16 × 21 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
235332
About the Artist
James Duffield Harding
James Duffield Harding (1798–1863) was one of the most influential British watercolorists and lithographers of the nineteenth century, whose teaching manuals, technical innovations, and celebrated landscape paintings shaped the practice of drawing across two generations of artists. Born in Deptford, London, he was the son of a drawing master who had studied under Paul Sandby, and received his earl...