Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Pencil on pale blue paper
  • 7 × 6 inches · 178 × 152 mm
  • Initialled: ‘W.H.H’
    Drawn c.1849 

Collections

  • Edith Holman Hunt (1846-1931), wife of the artist; 
  • John Holman Tupper, gift of the above, 9th October 1925;
  • Harold J. Daly, acquired in 1970;
  • Christie’s, 18 November 1980, lot 69;
  • Christopher Gibbs, acquired at the above;
  • Private collection, acquired from the above;
  • Gorringe’s, Lewes, 11 March 2025, lot 53;
  • Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.

Exhibitions

  • Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Collective Exhibition of the Works of W. Holman Hunt, 1907, no.102;
  • Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures and Drawings by W. Holman Hunt, 1907, no.54;
  • London, National Gallery, Millbank, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period, 1923, no.141.

Literature

  • William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, London and New York, 1905, vol.I, p.195, repr; 
  • O.J.W. von Schleinitz, William Holman Hunt (Künstler-Monographien vol. LXXXVIII), Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1907, plate 18, p.23;
  • Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2006. Vol.II, cat. no.D43, p.26.

Private collection USA