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Study of the Crescent Moon in "The Ship", c. 1875. Opaque watercolor on cream wove paper.
Opaque watercolor on cream wove paper · 18 × 6.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Study of the Crescent Moon in "The Ship"
- Artist
- William Holman Hunt English, 1827-1910
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 18 × 6.8 cm (7 1/8 × 2 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1827–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.