Interior of a barn with chickens

Details

William Henry Hunt, O.W.S. (1790-1864)
Interior of a barn with chickens
pencil and watercolour, with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
12¼ x 17 7/8 in. (31 x 45.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Spink-Leger, London.

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Lot Essay

During the late 1830s Hunt executed a series of works of barn interiors and outhouses. Hunt executed a watercolour of a similar interior with his wife as the model, entitled The Outhouse, (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) dated 1838 and illustrated in J. Witt, op.cit., p. 173, no. 321, pl. 15.

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