Lot 1884
WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT, OM (1827-1910) STUDY FOR `THE BEGGAR MAID`, 1857 Pen and sepia ink 16 x 7.5cm. * A preparatory study for the woodcut in Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Tennyson's Poems ( familiarly known as `The Moxon Tennyson`) which also contains illustrations by Rossetti and Millais amongst its 30 plates. The page from the book is included. (2) Provenance: Stratford upon Avon, S. & K. Morris, October 1975.
Literature: Judith Bronkhurst, William Holman Hunt Catalogue Raisonne (Yale University Press 2006), vol.II, p.92, ref. 166. We are grateful to Dr Bronkhurst for her assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
