Picturesque Selections: Cover, from Picturesque Selections
James Duffield Harding
c. 1860
Medium
Portfolio cover
Dimensions
Secondary support: 56 × 43 cm (22 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
portfolio cover
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
127780
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...