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Pencil Drawing - The Lantern Maker's Courtship - study of A Street Scene in Cairo
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© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Basic Information | | Accession Number: | 1946P18 |
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| Collection: | Fine Art Prints and Drawings |
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| Date: | 1854 - 1854 |
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Maker Information | | Artist: | William Holman Hunt - View biography for William Holman Hunt |
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Notes | A study of a Cairo street used by Hunt in both of his painted versons of 'The Lantern-Maker's Courtship'.
The artist wrote to William Kenrick, the owner of the exhibited oil, on 5 December 1906: 'In recently looking over my sketches and drawings no remains existed of any pencil or pen-and-ink experiments of the design I had made for this subject' (Birmingham museum files).
| | Presented by Barrow Cadbury, 1946. |
Further Information | | Production Period: | 19th century |
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| School/Style: | Architecture Egypt |
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| Medium: | Pencil on paper. |
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| Material(s): | Paper |
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Associated Places | | Dimensions | | Height: | 353 mm |
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| Width: | 248 mm |
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1962P68 - Oil Painting - The Lantern Maker's Courtship, A Street Scene in Cairo