
Lot 47
William Holman Hunt, ARSA, RWS, OM(British, 1827-1910)Buffaloes working a pump
27 September 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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William Holman Hunt, ARSA, RWS, OM (British, 1827-1910)
Buffaloes working a pump
pencil
13.5 x 21.5cm (5 5/16 x 8 7/16in).
pencil
13.5 x 21.5cm (5 5/16 x 8 7/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Thence by descent; Mrs. Elisabeth Burt Collection, UK.
Burt Collection; sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 October 1985, lot 22 (according to catalogue inscribed on former mount Nile journey to Damietta).
Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale).
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1965-1985 (on loan).
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, William Holman Hunt, 1969, no. 143.
Literature
Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt. A Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. II, London, 2006, no. L38, p. 215.