William Henry Hunt O.W.S. (British 1790-1864) A Lady Reading by Lamplight Signed lower right: W Hunt Watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and gum arabic 31.2 by 22 cm., 10¼ by 9 in. Unframed LITERATURE: J. Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work: with a catalogue, London 1982, p.150, no, 379, pl. 43 EXHIBITED: Possibly Old Water-Colour Society, 1829, no. 13 or 214 (both entitled A Lady by Lamplight) London, The Fry Gallery, Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Cyril Fry, 1967, no.44 The sitter in the present lot is the same girl as in the Witt Collection, dated 1827 (no. 548) and in the Huntington Library (no. 403)