Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence

before 1832

Not on view

Ponte Santa Trinità, a bridge across the Arno in Florence, forms the center of Harding's watercolor. The tower of the Palazzo Vecchio punctuates the skyline at left, and the Ponte Vecchio is glimpsed beyond the arches. The artist took his view from the top of a flight of steps leading down to the river, and describes masons working on a block of stone in the foreground. Additional figures sit on or lean against the embankment wall as a figure on horseback passes a carriage further along the riverside road. The images was engraved by James Redaway for Thomas Roscoe's "The Tourist in Italy" (1832).

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Title: Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence
Artist: James Duffield Harding (British, Deptford, Kent 1797–1863 Barnes, Surrey)
Date: before 1832
Medium: Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 x 11 5/16 in. (20.3 x 28.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Object Number: 2013.71
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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