LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk, pen and black ink on paper

Measurements:

14.02 in. (35.60 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials 'W.H.H.' and indistinctly inscribed (lower edge) and with inscription 'Columbus jeered at while propounding his theory of the round earth orange in hand/ Original drawing by William Holman-Hunt.' (on the reverse)

Literature:

J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, vol II, p. 113, no. D213.

Provenance:

The artist, and by descent to Gladys Holman Hunt, by whom given to Charles Stanley Pollitt, 1947, and by descent to his daughter, Diana Coelho. with David Carritt, London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1980, lot 71 as 'The Mocking of Columbus', where purchased by the present owner.