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A Boy with a Pole
William Henry Hunt (English, 1790–1864)
English
Medium/Technique
Watercolor on board
Dimensions
Sheet: 27.5 x 18.5 cm (10 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.128
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA WC cat. p 94
DescriptionDull red jacket and waistcoat, blue cap, yellow-brown knee-breeches; holds a yellow pole. The free handling and the direct use of color are those of Hunt's middle period. The boy, whom he found at Hastings about 1831 and brought to London, is apparently the model used by Hunt in many other pictures.
InscriptionsLower right in graphite: Hunt; verso in ink:William Henry Hunt
ProvenanceGift of Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935, Cambridge); 8 March 1906