Sketches at Home and Abroad: Falls of Terni
Medium
lithograph with tint stone
Dimensions
image: 39.2 × 27.9 cm · sheet: 39.2 × 27.9 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2012.274
Tags
male
About this artwork
A watercolor painter and printmaker, Harding was one of the best-known artists of his day in England. A popular instructor, he taught poetry of landscape painting, admonishing his students to "produce as near a likeness to Nature, in every respect, as the instrument, or material employed, will admit of; not so much by bonâ fide imitation, as by reviving in the mind those ideas which are awakened by a contemplation of Nature . . . The renewal of those feelings constitutes the true purpose of Art....