Art Institute of Chicago
Study of the crescent moon in ‘The Ship’
- Pencil, watercolour and gouache
- 7 × 2 ¾ inches · 178 × 70 mm
- Slight sketches on the verso, including one of a woman bending over, seen from behind
Painted c.1875
Collections
- By descent in the artist’s family to Mrs. Elizabeth Burt;
- Sotheby’s, 10 October 1985, lot 54;
- J.S. Maas & Co Ltd, 1985;
- Nicolette Wernick, USA, to 2009;
- Lowell Libson Ltd;
- Matthew Rutenberg to 2019
Exhibitions
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on loan 1965-85.
Literature
- Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Drawings and Watercolours, 2006, p. 153, D299, repr.