Study of the Crescent Moon in "The Ship"

1. The artist, to 1910; by descent to his second wife, Edith Holman Hunt (née Waugh; 1846–1931); by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Michael Joseph (née Gladys Millais Mulock Holman Hunt; 1876–1951); by descent to her adopted daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Burt; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Oct. 10, 1985, lot 54, to J. S. Maas & Co., London; sold to Nicolette Wernick, Massachusetts and Connecticut, June 17, 1987 [according to Bronkhurst 2006]; sold, Christie’s, London, June 16, 2010, lot 43. Lowell Libson Ltd., London. Matthew Rutenberg (1956–2019), New York, to 2019. Sold by Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Drawings and Watercolours (New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University Press), p. 153, no. D299 (ill.).

The Abundance of Egypt

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My Beautiful Lady (top); Of My Lady in Death (bottom), frontispiece to The Germ, No. 1

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The Shadow of Death

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William Holman Hunt

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The Day in the Country

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Father's Leave-Taking

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The Shadow of Death

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The Light of the World

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