Spoleto
| Reference: | S46492 |
| Author | James D. HARDING |
| Year: | 1830 ca. |
| Zone: | Spoleto |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 140 x 95 mm |
€60.00
| Reference: | S46492 |
| Author | James D. HARDING |
| Year: | 1830 ca. |
| Zone: | Spoleto |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 140 x 95 mm |
€60.00
Description
View from The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy. Illustrated from drawings by S. Prout, Esq... London: Robert Jennings, 1830 by Thomas Roscoe.
The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy is the first of nine volumes known as The Landscape Annual. Subsequent volumes cover Italy alone and then France and Spain.
The work is illustrated with engravings from drawings by the English painter Samuel Prout, J. D. Harding and others; it was printed in London between 1830 and 1838.
Copperplate, in excellent condition.
James D. HARDING (Deptford, Londra, 1798; Londra, 4 Dicembre 1863)
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English painter, engraver and writer. He received his first lessons in painting from his father, J. Harding, who was a pupil of Paul Sandby. By 1807 the family had moved to Greenwich where Harding spent much of his time drawing and painting in Greenwich Park. In 1811 at the age of 14 he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy. He had lessons in watercolour painting from Samuel Prout and in 1816 he won the Society of Arts silver medal for landscape painting. He also learnt engraving from John Pye and subsequently became a skilled engraver and lithographer.
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James D. HARDING (Deptford, Londra, 1798; Londra, 4 Dicembre 1863)
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English painter, engraver and writer. He received his first lessons in painting from his father, J. Harding, who was a pupil of Paul Sandby. By 1807 the family had moved to Greenwich where Harding spent much of his time drawing and painting in Greenwich Park. In 1811 at the age of 14 he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy. He had lessons in watercolour painting from Samuel Prout and in 1816 he won the Society of Arts silver medal for landscape painting. He also learnt engraving from John Pye and subsequently became a skilled engraver and lithographer.
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