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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.113
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Two Half-Length Studies of Women; Head in Profile, for "Dido and Anna"
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Two studies of females in classical dress and one profile head of a woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1808 - 1813
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305557

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
15 x 18.3 cm (5 7/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, paper: 179

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number
8.1955.113
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and memorabilia, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1947), no. 47, p. 10
  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 192
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 98A, reproduced in b/w fig. 260

Exhibition History

  • Washington Allston, 1779-1843: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/11/1947 - 06/15/1947; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/17/1947 - 08/24/1947

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