Artist

James Harrison

James Harrison is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

James Harrison painted quiet watercolors of the English countryside in the early 1800s. His 1829 sheet *The River Orwell, and the bridge near Ipswich* shows a calm stretch of water with a low bridge and distant fields, all done in soft washes of gray and blue. The scene feels ordinary—a slice of everyday life—but it’s exactly that ordinariness that makes it interesting. Tap *The River Orwell, and the bridge near Ipswich* to see how light and water can hold stillness on paper.

Works by James Harrison

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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