LOT DETAILS
Materials:
colored chalks on buff paper; pen and brown ink on paper, one with pencil
Size Notes:
(i); 50.5 x 37.5 cm (ii) ; 14 x 11.5 cm (iii) ; 14.6 x 11.5 cm (iv)
Description:
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Markings:
the first dated 'Sept 4 1879.' (lower left); the second signed with monogram and dated '1897' (lower left); the fourth signed with initials (lower centre) one with fragmentary watermark '& SONS'
Exhibited:
i) Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, long term loan 1965-1985. ii) Shropshire, Shifnal, Southgate Gallery, Drawings and Literature by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Associates, 19 April – 3 May 1980, catalogue unnumbered.
Literature:
i) W. Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, London, 1913, vol. II, p. 285. J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt, a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, vol. II, p. 170, no. D343. ii) O.J.W. von Schleinitz, William Holman Hunt, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1907, p. 129, pl. 125. W. Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, London, 1913, vol. II, p. 311. J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt, a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, vol. II, p. 209, no. D426. iii) J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt, a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, vol. II, p. 256, no. P485. iv) J. Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt, a catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006, vol. II, p. 222, no. L89.
Provenance:
i) The artist, and by descent to Mrs Elisabeth Burt. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 October 1985, lot 60, where purchased by the present owner. ii) (Probably) Sold by the trustees of Hilary Holman Hunt by Charles Hawkins & Sons at The Rookery, Rockland All Saints, Norfolk, 5 June 1951, part of lot 190 (bought by Leger Galleries). Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 31 October 1978, lot 47. with Julian Hartnoll, London. Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 11 December 1979, lot 15a, where purchased by the present owner. iii) The artist, and by descent to his daughter, Gladys Joseph, by whom given to Charles Stanley Pollitt, the artist's studio assistant, in 1947, and by descent to Diana Coelho, in 1965. with David Carritt, 1972. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1980, part of lot 72, where purchased by the present owner. iv) The artist, and by descent to Mrs Elisabeth Burt; Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 9 July 1974, lot 32, where purchased by the present owner.