James Duffield Harding | Sketches at home and abroad. London, 1836, early tinted lithographed plates

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Lot 42 | James Duffield Harding | Sketches at home and abroad. London, 1836, early tinted lithographed plates
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£ 2 000 – 4 000
James Duffield Harding

Sketches at home and abroad. London: Printed by C. Hullmandel for Charles Tilt, 1836

FIRST EDITION, folio (560 x 370mm.), with tinted lithographed title page featuring seven vignettes and 50 FINE TINTED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES, 45 full-page, three with two images, and two plates with four, later calf over gilt original flower-patterned cloth, new endpapers, lacking dedication leaf, as often, cloth slightly faded, a small area carefully renewed

CONTAINING SOME OF THE EARLIEST TINTED LITHOGRAPHS. According to Abbey this is “a landmark in the history of lithography in that it may be said to initiate the series of tinted lithographic views, which, in books and in portfolios, were to dominate the market for many years.” Harding and lithographer Charles Hullmandel achieved a breakthrough in the effort to “imitate the effect of original drawings on tinted paper, heightened by Chinese white… to get a more subtle gradation of tone, and… to draw and preserve in the printing the fine-grained tones, especially the lighter ones.” The colouring here is both subtle and dramatic, with the whites being unusually prominent. This is much in evidence in the most memorable of the plates, “Shipwreck / a Study on the Coast of Sussex,” in which the explosion of white foam created by the waves hitting the rocks demonstrates the peril facing the ship. Throughout the wide variety of scenes, which include Medieval German towns, Italian fishing villages, lovely pastoral scenes, and breath-taking waterfalls, the technique achieved with the white accents adds much to the aesthetic value. A landscape painter and lithographer, Harding (1797-1863) received a diamond ring from King Louis Philippe of France, to whom this work was dedicated, and was awarded two gold medals by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts for lithographic drawings. Hullmandel (1789-1850) patented the process of lithotint in 1840, and, according to ODNB, “Most of the major improvements made to lithography in Britain in the 1820s and 1830s can be attributed to [him]”.
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