Cordova, Moorish Mills

Location

Country: UK
City: England
Place: Leeds, Ministry of Justice

James Duffield Harding was born in Deptford, Kent; the son of an engraver and drawing-master. He was taught by his father, before studying under S. Prout and C. Pye. In 1818 he began exhibiting at the Society of Painters in Water Colours and he later became a member. He was one of the first to practice lithography. Harding travelled to Italy in 1824 and also toured France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. He was a passionate drawing-master and wrote instructional books. His Italian views on different papers (exhibited 1830) led to the range of ‘Harding papers’, manufactured by Whatman. In 1841 he published ‘The Park and the Forest’, a series of lithotints. He lived in St John’s Wood (1848-60), before moving to Barnes, where he died aged 66.

Places

Spain, Córdoba

Subjects

rowing boat, cart, topography, tree, cow, river bank, river, man, fence, path, mill, ruin, archway, wall

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), chalk, gouache (as object name), chalk drawing, heightening, black (as object description), white (Colour)

Artist

James Duffield Harding (1797 - 1863)

Title

Cordova, Moorish Mills

Date

Medium

Black chalk with white gouache heightening, on paper

Dimensions

height: 25.00 cm, width: 63.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, February 1973

Inscription

br: Cordova. Moorish Mills

GAC number

10011