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Hyperion
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1827-1910
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Width: 26 cm
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Exhibition History
Watercolours, Birmingham & England & UK, 29/01/2011-15/05/2011
William Holman Hunt, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1969
Loan Exhibition of paintings and drawings of the 1860 period, National Gallery, London, 27/04/1923-29/07/1923
Literature
p. 50
fig. 49 on p. 50
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 28
Hunt, William Holman, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, London, 2nd ed., 1913
vol. 1 p. 69
ill.
Inscriptions
Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down and now glued to new handling edges): black ink: "And still these two were postured motionless, / Like natural sculpture in cathedral cavern."; black ink, signed and dated: "W. Holman Hunt 1847."; black ink: "The while in tears / She touched her fair large forehead to the ground, / Just where her falling hair might be outspread / A soft & silken mat for Saturn's feet. / Hyperion".
Label: Mount (removed, see photo attached and in file): printed, typewritten and filled in with blue ink: “ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE. / FASTEN Envelope by gumming this Label across Flap. / OPEN by cutting Label instead of tearing Envelope. / National Gallery, Millbank, S.W.1 / 1860 Exhibition. 1923 / Title / Artist / Lender Mrs Holman Hunt / Address 18, Melbury Road / Kensington / (Lablest).".
Collector's mark: none.
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