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Holman Hunt retouched and restretched the painting in 1891 shortly after it was bought by the Birmingham industrialist and MP William Kenrick (1831-1919) (see museum files).A smaller oil painting of the same subject is in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.
- Presented by the family of Wilfred Byng Kendrick, 1962.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
William Holman Hunt |
- |
Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
- |
Monogram |
bottom left |
Handwritten |
1854-61 |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
- |
231 |
Royal Academy, London |
1861 - 1861 |
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- |
30 |
Liverpool Academy |
1861 - 1861 |
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- |
1862 |
International Exhibition |
1862 - 1862 |
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Exhibition of Modern Works of Art |
- |
Birmingham Society of Artists |
1863-09-03 - 1864-01-16 |
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- |
49 |
Grosvenor Galleries, London |
1857 - 1857 |
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William Holman Hunt |
21 |
Leicester Galleries, London |
1906 - 1906 |
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On loan |
- |
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery |
1920 - 1924 |
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Works belonging to The Friends of the Gallery |
79 |
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery |
1962-02-16 - 1962-03-11 |
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British Royal Family Exhibition |
99 |
Special Gallery, Seibu Department Store, Toyko |
1967-10-06 - 1967-10-18 |
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William Holman Hunt |
28, repr |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpoool |
1969-03-25 - 1969-04-29 |
28, repr |
Victoria and Albert Museum |
1969-05-15 - 1969-06-22 |
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The Pre-Raphaelites |
86, repr |
Tate Gallery, London |
1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28 |
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Europa und der Orient 800-1900 |
14/21 repr |
Martin Gropius- Bau Museum, Berlin |
1989-05-28 - 1989-08-27 |
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Espejismos del Medio Oriente: Delacroix a Moreau |
54 |
Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City |
1999-11 - 2000-04 |
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Tales from the Arabian Nights: A Victorian Fantasy |
no cat. no |
Leighton House, London |
1997-12-15 - 1998-02-28 |
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Orientalism British Art and the Islamic World |
- |
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, US |
2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28 |
- |
Tate Britain, London |
2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31 |
- |
Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Pera Museum, Instanbul, Turkey |
2008-09-23 - 2009-01-11 |
- |
Sharjah Museum, United Arab Emirates |
2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
- |
F G Stephens |
29 September 1860 & 4 May 1861 |
Athenaeum |
p.424 & pp.599-600 |
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- |
T Taylor |
4 May 1861 |
The Times |
p.12 |
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Drypoint |
|
18 May 1861 |
Spectator |
p.531 |
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- |
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1 June 1861 |
Art Journal |
pp.168-9 |
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- |
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25 May 1861 |
Saturday Review XI |
p.531 |
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Weldon's Register |
|
1 June 1861 |
- |
p.29 |
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The Portfolio VI |
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1875 |
William Holman Hunt |
p.45 |
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Collection of C P Matthews |
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1887 |
Magazine of Art |
p.337 |
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Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
William Holman Hunt |
1905 |
Macmillan |
Vol 1, pp.380 n., 385-88; Vol 2pp.16, 17 repr, 105 |
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William Holman Hunt in Kunstler-Monographien |
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1907 |
Bielefeld and Leipzig |
pl.50, p.52 |
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William Holman Hunt |
Judith Bronkhurst |
2006 |
Yale University Press, New Haven and London |
Cat. 83 |
Provenance
Bought Charles P. Matthew by 1877; sold by his executors, Christie's 6 June 1891 (61); bought Agnew on behalf of William Kenrick, MP, Birmingham, £635 5s.; by descent to W Byng Kenrick; presented to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1962. |
Associated places
Name |
Type |
Cairo, Egypt |
Depicted |
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