Nablous and Gerizim
Drawing
1870 (drawn)
1870 (drawn)
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| Place of origin |
Drawing
Object details
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| Title | Nablous and Gerizim (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, `Nablous and Gerizim', 1870, by William Holman Hunt |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - 'Bt Christie's, [16] June 1970 [(33)] £57:15/- [shillings] [with SD.520] .' The artist's daughter Gladys Joseph; her gift to Charles Stanley Pollitt; thence by descent to Stanley Pollitt. |
| Historical context | Another drawing of the same site executed in October 1855 (sold Sotheby's 10 October 1985, lot 40) differs in style from SD.521. This drawing probably dates from Hunt's three-week visit to Nazareth, June 1870 (mentioned in Hunt letters of 21 June and 25 June to F.G. Stephens and T. Combe, MSS. Bodleian Library, Oxford). In April 1870 Hunt had mentioned to Combe that the sacrifice at Gerizim [Abraham's proposed sacrifice of Isaac] was `one of my subjects' (MS. Bodleian Library). In June the artist executed another pencil view of Nablus, which was published as the frontispiece to volume two of the second edition of F.W. Farrar's The Life of Christ (1874). See also SD.1255. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Searight, Rodney. The Middle East : watercolours and drawings by British and foreign artists and travellers, 1750-1900, from the collection of Rodney Searight, Esq. London, 1971 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.521 |
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| Record created | February 19, 2008 |
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