William Henry Hunt, Bird's Nest and Hawthorn Blossom, c. 1845 -1850

Bird's Nest and Hawthorn Blossom

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts , Inv. No. 1898.1 (Fine Art Appropriations Fund)

Watercolor and bodycolor

6 9/16 X 10 3/16 inches, 16.7 X 25.8 cm

Signed, l.r., W. HUNT

 

Provenance:

?Mr. Barnes. ?, [John Wheeldon Barnes], (S) Christie's, London. 7 April 1874, Lot]

John Ruskin,

James Orrock,

William Ward,

sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1898.

 

Exhibited:

7 April 2007 - 8 July 2007, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle,

 

Literature:

 

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 80;

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 21, 41, 60, 93, pl. 9

 

This watercolor was probably the first work by Hunt to enter an American public collection.

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