William Holman Hunt (London 1827 - 1910 London)
waterwheel and carpentry tools studies for the "Shadow of Death" (1870 – 73)
Description:
pencil, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on blue paper
343 x 235 mm on a mount made for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Provenance:
By descent in the artist’s family to Mrs Elizabeth Burt Sotheby's London, October 10, 1985, lot 53 (repr.), £528
Private collection Sotheby’s London, July 10, 1995, lot 248
Simon Taylor, London
Literature
Bronkhurst, J., William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, 2006 [New Haven and London], p. 144, no. 278
Exhibitions
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