![Watercolor, bodycolor, and gum arabic on paper, with scratching out. i2 1/2 X 8 in., 32 X 20 cm Signed and dated, l.r., W. HUNT 1834 This watercolor was exhibited by the artist at the 1834 Spring Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours under the title, The Father's Boots, but in later years came to be known as Grandfather's Boots. It was included in the 1879-1880 exhibition organized by John Ruskin of works by William Hunt and Samuel Prout as The Fisherman's Boy and was one of four watercolors by Hunt which Ruskin considered to be the finest examples of the highest category of Hunt's art, "[d]rawings illustrative of rural life in its vivacity and purity, without the slightest endeavour at idealisation, and still less with any wish either to caricature or deplore its imperfections." None of the watercolors included in the 2017 Country People exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, mostly works in the artist's early style, were of the type most praised by Ruskin.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/William_Henry_Hunt%2C_The_Father%27s_Boots%2C_1834.jpg)
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Watercolor, bodycolor, and gum arabic on paper, with scratching out.
i2 1/2 X 8 in., 32 X 20 cm Signed and dated, l.r., W. HUNT 1834 This watercolor was exhibited by the artist at the 1834 Spring Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours under the title, The Father's Boots, but in later years came to be known as Grandfather's Boots. It was included in the 1879-1880 exhibition organized by John Ruskin of works by William Hunt and Samuel Prout as The Fisherman's Boy and was one of four watercolors by Hunt which Ruskin considered to be the finest examples of the highest category of Hunt's art, "[d]rawings illustrative of rural life in its vivacity and purity, without the slightest endeavour at idealisation, and still less with any wish either to caricature or deplore its imperfections." None of the watercolors included in the 2017 Country People exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, mostly works in the artist's early style, were of the type most praised by Ruskin. |
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