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James Duffield Harding
c. 1860
Medium
Letterpress on paper
Dimensions
56 × 43 cm (22 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
letterpress
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
127778
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...