Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence
James Duffield Harding
before 1832
Medium
Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 x 11 5/16 in. (20.3 x 28.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Accession Number
2013.71
Tags
BuildingsBridgesMenWomenCanals
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...