Watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-henry-hunt-286" aria-label="More by William Henry Hunt" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Henry Hunt</a>
A Water Carrier
Presented by Charles Fraser 1905
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
boy
bucket
children
domestic
drawing water
hand / hands on hip
objects
people
smiling
standing
tools and machinery
vessels and containers
work and occupations
yoke
<p>Hunt found many models in Hastings. One family, called the Swains, supplied him for many years. He took the oldest of the lads into his service as his page and model, until he outgrew the office. He was replaced by the next brother, who in turn made room for the youngest of the three. Their faces appear in a number of Hunt’s works during the 1830s. It is probably a Swain boy who is dressed as a water carrier in this work.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
26 October 2013 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
26 October 2013 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
2013-10-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-10-26
The Nature of Common Life: Drawing the Everyday 1800 - 60
Collection based display
A Water Carrier
support: 375 × 260 mm
Presented by Charles Fraser 1905
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<span class="text0">Hunt found many models in Hastings.  </span><span class="text11">One family, called the Swains, supplied  him for many years. He      took the oldest  of the lads into his service as his page </span><span class="text0">
and model, until he outgrew the office. He was replaced by      the next brother, who in turn made room for the youngest of the </span><span class="text11">three. Their faces appear in a number  of Hunt’s works      during the 1830s. It is probably a Swain boy who is dressed </span><span class="text0">
as a water carrier in this work.  </span>
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions boy bucket children domestic drawing water hand / hands on hip objects people smiling standing tools and machinery vessels and containers work and occupations yoke