Avignon: Palace of Popes and Cathedral

James Duffield Harding (1798 - 1863)

British Museum

1810 - 1863

A view of Avignon with the city in the mid-distance beyond trees and meadows with a ridge of hills in the distance. One drawing from a collection of 58 drawings, mostly of the British School, from the Herbert Powell Collection of British Watercolours. Dr Herbert Powell formed a valuable collection of watercolours and drawings. He had earlier gifted some works from the collection to the Art Fund in 1929 to function as a Loan Collection for public institutions. These works were later permanently distributed by the Art Fund amongst various public collections in 1968.

• Medium: pencil
• Dimensions: 24 x 34 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1939
• Presented by Herbert A Powell through The Art Fund

Provenance

Powell Collection.

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