LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil, pen and brown ink heightened with white on paper

Measurements:

13.50 in. (34.30 cm.) (height) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, on long-term loan 1965-1985. Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, and London, Victoria and Albert Museum, William Holman Hunt, 1969, no. 219.

Literature:

J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 144, no. 278.

Provenance:

The artist, and by descent in the family to Mrs Burt; Sotheby's, London, 10 October 1985, lot 53, where purchased by the present owner.