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Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour

226 x 332 mm., 9 x 13 ¼ in.

 

Provenance:

With James King, Liverpool

 

Engraved:

By William Finden as a steel engraving for `Ports, Harbours, Watering Places and Coast Scenery of Great Britain', 1842, vol. I, opp. p.133

Finden describes this view as follows (op. cit.): `The view of Plymouth is taken from the grounds of Mount Edgecumbe, looking across the lower part of the Sound. About the middle distance is St. Nicholas’ Island; beyond which are perceived the ramparts of the citadel. Between the citadel and the point of land to the right, where several small vessels are seen, is the entrance of the creek called the Catwater.’

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With artist's studio stamp lower right and inscribed: Hampstead Fields/march 6th 1857 -

Black chalk and stump

24.7 by 35 cm., 9 ¾ by 13 ¾ in.

 

Provenance:

Prince Donatus of Hohenzollern

 

Literature:

The Heath and Hampstead Society Newsletter, September 2006, vol. 37, no.3

 

In the mid nineteenth century, Hampstead Heath was significantly smaller than it is today and was confined to the area immediately to the west of Hampstead. Parliament Hill was added in 1888 and the Kenwood Estate in the 1920s. Between 1831 and 1871 local residents fought a long legal battle with Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, the owner of the heath who wanted to build houses on it. It was finally saved for the nation in 1871.

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black chalk heightened with white on grey paper

12.7 by 17.8cm., 5 by 7 inches

 

This is a preliminary sketch for an engraving by Harding based on an on-the-spot sketch by Count Leon de Laborde for Edward Finden?s Landscape illustrations of the Bible, published 1832-35. Turner produced twenty-eight illustrations for the same publication.

 

Provenance:

Clarissa Sophia Harding, 1843

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pencil, black chalk and watercolour on blue paper

17.8 by 12.2cm., 7 by 4 3/4 inches

 

Provenance:

Clarissa Sophia Harding, 1843

 

Harding first visited Italy in 1824 and returned there in 1831 and 1834. Sorrento stands on the south-east side of the Bay of Naples.

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Fifty-one, twenty-two brown wash, twelve pencil, eleven black chalk and six watercolour, two on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1850

 

Including studies of trees, cottages, landscapes, castles, rocks and yachts Various sizes, bound in an album embossed: STUDIES/BY/J.D. HARDING

 

This rare intact album of drawings by Harding may have been made as a learning aid for pupils. Two of the sheets are watermarked 1850, the year Harding published ?Lessons on Trees? so they may be studies relating to that publication. John Ruskin admired Harding?s work and described him as `after Turner, unquestionably the greatest master of foliage in Europe? (see John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. I, p.382)

 

Provenance:

Geoffrey Roberts, King?s Nympton, Devon, 1962

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Signed lower left: JDHarding/1841

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour

323 x 208 mm., 11 ½  x 8 in.

 

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lucas of 12a Kensington Palace Gardens, his sale, Christie’s, 9^th June 1902, lot 170, bt. Vokins for 11 guineas

William Cooke of North Bank, Muswell Hill, his sale, Christie’s, 8^th June 1917, lot 30, bt. Matthews for 18 guineas

 

Landeck is located in the Tyrolean Oberland in the west of Austria and is capital of the region of the same name. It is situated at 820 metres in the valley of the Inn River. A version of this watercolour was engraved for Harding’s Sketches at Home and Abroad, 1836, p.21.