Oberlahnstein on the Rhine
James Duffield Harding
c. 1839
Medium
watercolor with gouache over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 47.1 × 65.3 cm (18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin
Accession Number
2018.88.1
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...