Richard Bankes Harraden (1778 – 1862)
Gate of Honour, Caius College (1810)
Etching
13 x 20 cm
A nineteenth-century view of Christ’s College, Cambridge, complete with Members of the College and a hound on the lawn.
Richard Bankes Harraden was a printmaker, painter, and drawing master. He was active in Cambridge, producing many views of the colleges, and subsequently several Oxford colleges. Harraden was an early and exhibiting member of the Society of British Artists in London, which was established in 1823, and remained a member until 1849. He specialised in depictions of landscape, topography and architecture, and was the son of Richard Harraden (1756 – 1838) with whom he published plates as ‘Harraden & Son’.
Byrne was a London-born etcher and landscape painter, who was taught by her father, the etcher William Byrne. She and her father contributed etchings to the ‘Magna Britannia’ and ‘Britannia Depicta’, books illustrating the most interesting views in various English counties, published by Samuel Lysons in the late 1810s.
Condition: very good; later hand coloured.
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