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A study of a Cairo street used by Hunt in both of his painted versons of 'The Lantern-Maker's Courtship'. The artist wrote to William Kenrick, the owner of the exhibited oil, on 5 December 1906: 'In recently looking over my sketches and drawings no remains existed of any pencil or pen-and-ink experiments of the design I had made for this subject' (Birmingham museum files).
- Presented by Barrow Cadbury, 1946.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
William Holman Hunt |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
Cairo. March 30 W Holman Hunt / 1854 |
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bottom left |
Handwritten |
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Pencil |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the 1860 Period |
291 |
London, Tate Gallery |
1923-04-27 - 1923-06-29 |
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William Holman Hunt |
132, repro |
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery |
1969-03 - 1969-04 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
28, repro |
Seattle Art Museum, and US tour |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Supplement No III to the Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Paintings and Drawings: Acquisitions September 1939-December 1950 |
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1951 |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
p. 39. |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
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1984 |
Tate Gallery |
p.161. |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
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1995 |
Art Services International |
p. 132. |
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William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Judith Bronkhurst |
2006 |
Yale University Press, New Haven and London |
D 83. |
Provenance
Barrow Cadbury probably by December 1906; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1946. |
Associated places
Name |
Type |
Cairo, Egypt |
Depicted |
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