LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil on paper

Size Notes:

26.3 x 20.6 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed with monogram and dated 'Decr. 1853'

Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of the collected works of William Holman Hunt, O.M., D.C.L., October-November 1906, no. 43., Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, The collected works of William Holman Hunt, O.M., D.C.L., December 1906-January 1907, no. 75., Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Collective exhibition of the art of W. Holman Hunt, O.M., D.C.L, February-March 1907, no. 78., London, National Gallery, Loan exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 period, April-June 1923, no. 221., London, Royal Society of British Artists, The 200th exhibition, including a loan collection of Victorian and Edwardian draughtsmen, December 1943-January 1944, no. 612., Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, June-July 1947, no. 155., London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: British Portraits, November 1956-March 1957, no. 742. (label suggests 477), Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, and London, Victoria and Albert Museum, William Holman Hunt: an exhibition arranged by the Walker Art Gallery, March-June 1969, no. 128., King's Lynn, Fermoy Art Gallery, The Pre-Raphaelites as Painters and Draughtsmen: A loan exhibition from two private collections, July-August 1971, no. 43., London, Park Lane Hotel, The World of Watercolours loan exhibition, January 1990, unnumbered.

Literature:

Magazine of Art, January 1896, i., W.H. Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, London, 1905, I, p. 340., O.J.W. von Schleinitz, William Holman Hunt, Leipzig, 1907, p. 34., M. Bennett, William Holman Hunt: an exhibition arranged by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1969, p. 72., J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: a Catalogue Raisonn, London and New Haven, 2006, p. 48, D76.

Provenance:

William Millais in 1882., William Holman Hunt by 1896, and by descent to, Mrs M. Burt., Mrs M. Joseph., with Agnew's, London, 1970, where purchased by , The Lady Gibson, and by descent.