The Tour-sans-Venin, Dauphiné Region
Medium
Lithotint on paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.1 × 32.1 cm (9 1/2 × 12 11/16 in.); Plate: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 45.6 cm (13 7/8 × 18 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11214
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...