LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.86 in. (60.60 cm.) (height) by 15.24 in. (38.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated ‘Whh 67’ (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1876, no. 93.Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Art Nouveau, 1960.Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art; and New York, Gallery of Modern Art, The Pre-Raphaelites, 1964, no. 47, illustrated.Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England, 1965, no. 65.Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, The English Pre-Raphaelite Movement and its influence on American Decorative Arts: Roycroft-Tiffany, 1965.Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, The Victorian Rebellion, 1971, no. 39, illustrated.Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, The Revolt of the Pre-Raphaelites, 1972, no. 61, illustrated.Hempstead, New York, Emily Lowe Gallery, Victorian Art, 1972, no. 72, illustrated.Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle; and Frankfurt, Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Präraffaeliten, 1974, no. 47, illustrated.Maryland, University of Maryland Art Gallery, The Search for Innocence, 1975, no. 43, illustrated.Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre-Raphaelite Era, 1848-1914, 1976, nos. 4-6, illustrated.Washington, Federal Reserve System, English Pre-Raphaelite Painting, 1977, no. 11.Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum, La Bella Mano: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Samuel and Mary Bancroft Collection of the Delaware Art Museum, 1982, no. 8. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Pre-Raphaelite Collections of the Delaware Art Museum, 1984 (followed by US tour).Providence, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, ‘Ladies of Shalott’: A Victorian Masterpiece and its Contexts, 1985, no. 20.Bryn Mawr, Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Christina’s World, 1990.San Diego Museum of Art, California; Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, U.K.; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum, 2004, no. 25.

Literature:

[F.G. Stephens], Athenaeum, 20 May 1871, p. 630, and 27 May 1871, p. 663.Art Journal, New York, III, January 1867, p. 63.New York Tribune, 25 November 1876, p. 4.M. Bennett, ‘Footnotes to the Holman Hunt Exhibition’, Liverpool Bulletin, XIII, 1968-1970, pp. 40-41.M. F. Beaufort, H.L. Kleinfield and J.W. Welcher (eds.), The Diaries 1871-1882 of Samuel P. Avery, Art Dealer, New York, 1979, p. 83.L. Parris (ed.), Pre-Raphaelite Papers, London, 1984, pp. 216-218.R. Elzea (ed.), The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft, Jr. and related Pre-Raphaelite Collections, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Delaware, 1984, (revised ed.) pp. 66, 68.J.H. Coombs, A.M. Scott, G.P. Landow, A.A. Sanders (eds.), A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1986, pp. 79, 86.S. Wildman, Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum, 2004, no. 25, p. 146.Judith Bronkhurst, William Homan Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, Vol. I, no. 107.

Provenance:

Purchased from the artist by Ernest Gambart, 19 November 1867.with Lewis Pocock, London.Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 13 May 1871, lot 104 (bought in).with Pilgeram & Lefèvre, London.with Samuel P. Avery, New York, 24 October 1871.John Taylor Johnston, New York; his sale, Samuel P. Avery, Chickering Hall, New York, 19 December 1876, lot 85.with John Work Garrett, Baltimore, and by descent to his daughterMary Elizabeth Garrett, Baltimore, 1884, by whom bequeathed toMartha Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr College, 1915.Bequeathed to her trustees for the benefit of Bryn Mawr College, 1935.Purchased by the Delaware Art Museum, 12 July 1947 (Special Purchase Fund, 1947-9).