J.D.HARDING– HARDINGS PORTFOLIO – original folio 1837 – 22 LITHOGRAPHS
AuthorJ.D. HARDING (James Duffield Harding)
TitleHardings Portfolio
1stEdition. 22 original plates of single tint lithographs, drawn on thestone by James Harding. The views include scenes of Britain (7),France (4), Italy (5) and Germany (6).
PublishedLondon,Charles Tilt, 1837 -Large Folio book (37,5 cm x 28 cm) in itsoriginal cover, (green cloth and brown half morocco binding) withgilt stamped title on upper board, title in gilt to spine, all edgesgilt, yellow endpapers, one page advertisements in the end (aboutother Hardings works)
Eachplate is protected by a blank page
CONTENT:22 lithographs(out of 24 listed on the front page) printed uponthick woven paper with large full margins.
TheTitlepage is missing (which should include vignette illustration n°1: TheThames near Rotherhithe).
2.Ludgate Hill, London.
3.On the Thames near Gravesend.
4.The Low Fall Aysgarth, Yorkshire.
5.Hastings
6.Arundel Castle.
7.Hastings Beach.
8.Little Hampton, on the Avon.
9.Entrance to Feildskirch.
10.Feildkirch Castle. (alongwith a lovely 19thcenturydrawing, unfinished copy) see photo
11.Tyrolese Peasants at Maltz.
12.Trento, Tyrol.
13.Boppart,on the Rhine.Missing plate
14.Bacharach on the Rhine.
15.Ehrenfels on the Rhine.
16.Finisso Castle, Val dAosta.
17.Croix dArrolet, Val Savaranche.
18.Ivrea, Val dAosta.
19.Roccabruna, Coast of Genoa.
20.Pallazuolo.
21.Cathedral at Puy, France.
22.Sisteron, South of France.
23.Pont-Neuf, Paris.
24.Rouen.
CONDITION
TheBinding is loose, detached from the inside pages, but the cover is stilltight.
Somelight stains and scratches on both boards.
Theleather corners and spine are very rubbed and worn, with leathermissing
Titleplate and Illustration n°13 are missing out of the 24 originallypublished.
Somelight foxing in the margins.
Ascarce portfolio of superb lithographic prints
Hardingsfolio Sketchesat Home and Abroad and imperial quartoPortfoliowere in fact published the same year, though the latter is dated1837. All copies were "tinted in exact imitation of theoriginaldrawings," the tint used being yellow, withhighlights left in white.Like its predecessor itcontains"sketchesat home and abroad," theEnglish views,though only seven in number, being the mostattractive»
inThe Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914byGordon Norton Ray
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JamesDuffield Harding
JamesDuffield Harding (1798 – 4 December 1863), was an English landscapepainter, lithographer and author of drawing manuals. His use oftinted papers and opaque paints in watercolour proved influential.
Hardingwas born at Deptford in 1798, the son of a drawing-master who hadbeen a pupil of Paul Sandby. He was taught perspective by his father,and had lessons from Samuel Prout.At the age of thirteen he exhibitedtwo drawings of buildings in the style of Prout at the Royal Academy.
Hewas apprenticed to the engraver Charles Pye, but left him after onlya year to concentrate on painting watercolours, and when he was 18 hewas awarded a silver medal by the Society of Arts. In 1818 he showedwith the Society of Painters in Watercolours, (known as the "OldWatercolour Society or OWCS from 1831) for first time. He was tocontribute to its exhibitions for the rest of his life. He waselected an associate of the society in 1820 and a full member in1821. In 1843 he took up oil painting, and exhibited many landscapesin that medium at the Royal Academy. In 1847 he resigned hismembership of the OWCS , hoping to be elected a member of theacademy; but, after nine years without success, he withdrew hiscandidature, and was re-elected to the OWCS.
Froman early on in his career Harding was a successful and popularteacher. When lithography became popular in Britain, he quicklyadopted it as a means of reproducing good examples for the use ofpupils and students. His first productions were drawing-books,consisting of pencil sketches and studies of trees; they were printedin tints with two stones, allowing the reproduction of more elaboratedrawings. His Sketches at Home and Abroad, a series of fifty platesusing this method, was published in 1836. In 1841 he published ThePark and the Forest, a set of sketches drawn on the stone with abrush instead of the crayon, a technique of his own invention whichhe called "lithotint". His other lithographic worksincluded A Series of Subjects from the Works of R. P. Bonington(1829–30); Recollections of India (1847, from drawings by C. S.Hardinge) and Picturesque Selections (1861).
In1830, Harding exhibited a series of Italian views sketched on papersof various colours and textures, the syyle of which was widelyimitated. His use of opaque body colourin watercolour, following theexample set by J.M.W. Turner also proved influential. His drawingswere praised by John Ruskin in Modern Painters. From the 1830s arange of papers was produced under the name of "JDH pure drawingpaper", initially for Winsor and Newton. The papers, whichproved popular amongst both amateur and professional artists, andwhich Harding used himself, were produced in white, and in shades ofcream, buff and grey. They were marketed until around 1910. Winsorand Newton also produced pencils under Hardings name.
Hardingwas a prolific author of educational manuals, and his Lessons on Art,Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art, Elementary Art, or the Use ofthe Chalk and Lead Pencil advocated and explained, and The Principlesand Practice of Art, were widely used both in Britain and abroad. HisDrawing Models and Their Uses (1854) describes the use of a range ofsolid forms which he prepared and marketed.
Hewas described by Gilbert Redgrave in A History of Water ColourPainting in England as "a skilful and rapid draughtsman, thoughsomewhat mannered, and rarely rising above the commonplace."
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