Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Watercolour on paper
  • 14 ⅛ × 9 ⅞ inches · 359 × 251 mm
  • Signed lower left: W. H. Hunt 

Collections

  • Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1967;
  • David M. Daniels (1927-2002), New York, acquired from the above;
  • Daniels sale, Sotheby’s New York, Oct. 29, 2002, lot 151;
  • Private collection, UK, to 2019

Literature

  • John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864): Life and work with a catalogue, London, 1982, pl. 10, cat. no. 329, reproduced pl.10;
  • Eds. David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume IV, from the American Revolution to World War I, part 2: Black Models and White Myths, Cambridge, 2012, pp.40-41, reproduced pl.22.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York