Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Interpretation about this artwork is under review

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Illustrator and lithographer George Barnard was a pupil of artist James Duffield Harding. Barnard exhibited his work from 1832 to 1884 at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Society of Artists and the New Water Colour Society. In 1857 he published ‘The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Watercolours’. By 1853 Barnard had been appointed Professor of Drawing at Rugby. His published works include six plates for ‘Reminiscences of Hastings’ (c.1839) and 27 for ‘Switzerland, Scenes and Incidents of Travel in the Bernese Oberland’ (1843). He also published several manuals on drawing and painting, including ‘The Handbook of Foliage and Foreground Drawing’ (1853) and ‘Drawing from Nature: A Series of Instructions in Sketching’ (1865).

Places

South America, Guyana, Mount Roraima, Pacaraima Mountains

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, tree, palm, smoke, fire, mountain, man

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, coloured lithograph

Artist

Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)
George Barnard ( - 1890)

Title

Roraima, a Remarkable Range of Sandstone Mountains in Guiana

Date

published 3 August 1840

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, July 1966

GAC number

7517