The Light of the World
A museum-exhibition poster of William Holman Hunt's The Light of the World — The Light of the World — the lantern-bearing figure knocking at an overgrown door at dawn — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Pre-Raphaelites, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
- Year
- 1851–1853
- Medium
- Oil on canvas over panel
- Original size
- 125 × 60 cm
- Collection
- Keble College Chapel, Oxford
- Movement
- Pre-Raphaelite
Christ, crowned with thorns and carrying a lantern, stands at night in an orchard and knocks at a wooden door overgrown with weeds and ivy; the door has no handle on the outside and can be opened only from within. Hunt painted it between 1851 and 1853, working at night in a makeshift hut at Ewell in Surrey to get the moonlight right, and exhibited it at the Royal Academy in 1854 with the verse from Revelation that it illustrates. John Ruskin's letter to The Times defended it against critics and made it famous. Thomas Combe, the printer who bought it, left it to Keble College, Oxford, where it hangs in a side chapel. Hunt painted a larger version in old age that toured the British Empire; it is in St Paul's Cathedral.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
