General
General
Object Auto ID
57415
Alternate Codes
objectautoid_sahrisv1_80279
Common Name
A Study for Oriana
Classified Name
Drawing
Quantity
1.00
Object Description

Drawing of a man in a horned helmet kissing a dead younger woman, presumably Oriana, lying in state on top of a sarcophagus, with an arrow protruding from her left side. Inset detail of hand, and ornate sarcophagus. Landscape in the background

Provenance

Bought in 1912 by Henry Tonks and presented by Sir Sigismund Neumann the same year, stored at the Tate and arrived in South Africa in 1916

Owner
Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG)
Description
Material Types
Paper
Technique Types
Drawing
Colours
pen and ink
pencil
incised lines
Inscriptions
"W.H.H' in pencil, in the lower right corner along the sarcophagus edge
Measurement Type Unit Value
Length
cm
10.60
Height
cm
8.10
Dimension Comments
8,1 x 10,6 cm
History
Object Age
1856
Maker
William Holman Hunt
Production Place
UK (assumed)
Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
Site Association
x y z
Media
JAG183 Hunt Study AF.pdf (62.55 KB)
JAG183 Hunt Study AF2.pdf (165.91 KB)
JAG183 Hunt Study for Oriana CC.pdf (58.07 KB)
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