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William Holman Hunt

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1853 April 12

Physical Description

Medium: pencil
Dimensions: oval, 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.
Date on Image: 12 April /53
Other production information determined from the object: D.G. Rossetti to Thomas Woolner, Edward Bateman, Bernhard Smith
Note: Inscribed and dated below the portrait (beneath mount, in unknown hand).

Production Description

Production Date: 1853 April 12
Exhibition History: Bournemouth, 1951 (no.101)
Model: William Holman Hunt

Provenance

Current Location: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Catalog Number: 392'04
Archival History: Thomas Woolner; F.W. Cosens; sold at Cosens Sale, Christie's, May 17, 1890 (lot 12; attributed to F.G. Stephens) for £9. 9 s; Fairfax Murray; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is one of at least three drawings that DGR made of the PRB circle for Woolner, who had emigrated to Australia (see Fredeman, Correspondence, 53. 22 and 23). The two other drawings by DGR were William Asleep and The Fire Fiend , now only known through reproductions.

Bibliography

  • Doughty and Wahl, Letters, vol. 1, 119-123; 130-138.
  • Fredeman, Correspondence, I. 220-226; 240-250 (53.1; 53.5 and 53.8).
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 169-170 (no. 341).
  • Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 406.
William Holman Hunt
Copyright: ©Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

Reproductions

  1. image

    Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 406.
  2. image

    Delaware Art Museum print.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: s341.rap.xml