Lot Essay
This important work by Hunt shows the mouth of Whitby harbour with part of the local fishing fleet and the ruins of Whitby Abbey, which stands on the headland on the south side of the town.
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Whitby Abbey, with boats sailing out of the harbour
Details
Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
Whitby Abbey, with boats sailing out of the harbour
with inscription 'Fine evening at Whitby 1881/A W Hunt' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
15½ x 22 in. (39.4 x 55.9 cm.)
Whitby Abbey, with boats sailing out of the harbour
with inscription 'Fine evening at Whitby 1881/A W Hunt' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
15½ x 22 in. (39.4 x 55.9 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. Dobson, 1897.
Victor Rienaecker.
Victor Rienaecker.
Literature
Old Water-Colour Society's Club, vol. II, London, 1924-1925, pl. 10.
Exhibited
London, Old Water-Colour Society, Summer 1881, no. 91.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of Pictures by Alfred W. Hunt, 1897, no. 48, as 'A Fine evening at Whitby'.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Drawings in Watercolour by Alfred William Hunt, 1897, no. 104.
London, Royal Academy, The Great Age of British Watercolours, 15 January-11 April 1993, exhibition catalogue no. 177, pl. 324, illustrated in colour.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of Pictures by Alfred W. Hunt, 1897, no. 48, as 'A Fine evening at Whitby'.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Drawings in Watercolour by Alfred William Hunt, 1897, no. 104.
London, Royal Academy, The Great Age of British Watercolours, 15 January-11 April 1993, exhibition catalogue no. 177, pl. 324, illustrated in colour.