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66 JAMES DUFFIELD HARDING Deptford 1797-1863 Barnes View of Landeck, Austria 67 GERMAN SCHOOL 19th Century
Signed lower left: JDHarding/1841 Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour 323 x 208 mm., 11 1/2 x 8 in.
Coastal Landscape in Italy
Provenance: Sir Thomas Lucas of 12a Kensington Palace Gardens, his sale, Christie’s, 9th June 1902, lot 170, bt. Vokins for 11 guineas William Cooke of North Bank, Muswell Hill, his sale, Christie’s, 8th June 1917, lot 30, bt. Matthews for 18 guineas
Watercolour, over an underdrawing in pencil Inscribed von. G Regel [?] STm and (Gwinner? [?]) on the backing sheet 151 x 315 mm., 5 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. Provenance: G. Regel(?) Georg Karl Wilhelm Seibt, Frankfurt (Lugt 2279)
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.
This may be a view of the Ligurian coast, near Genoa. The drawing was at one time in the collection of the 19th century German art historian Wilhelm Seibt (1823-1901). 77