Lot Essay
In his essay 'Modern English Landscape Painting', Hunt refers to sunsets as 'the divine expression of one of Nature's grandest moments'. (Nineteenth Century, May 1880, p. 792).
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View of the Rhine with a steam tug and barges
Details
Alfred William Hunt, R.W.S. (1830-1896)
View of the Rhine with a steam tug and barges
signed 'A.W. HUNT' (lower left) and with inscription 'Rhine. Steamtug with barges.' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
7½ x 11 in. (19 x 27.9 cm.)
View of the Rhine with a steam tug and barges
signed 'A.W. HUNT' (lower left) and with inscription 'Rhine. Steamtug with barges.' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
7½ x 11 in. (19 x 27.9 cm.)
Provenance
with Chris Beetles, London.
Exhibited
London, Old Water-Colour Society, Winter 1862, no. 411.