Winged Female Allegorical Figure with Cherub

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.20
People: Attributed to Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Winged Female Allegorical Figure with Cherub
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Female Figure with Wings, holding a Wreath and a Spear; a Cupid with Wreath and Trumpet
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1800 - 1811
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305579

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

10.5 x 11.2 cm (4 1/8 x 4 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: verso, graphite: By Allston / ca / [underscored:] 200
inscription: piece of old mount taped to mat, black ink: by Allston / ca. [underscored:] 200
inscription: piece of old mount taped to mat, black ink: Bought by Sumner Appleton and sold to H. W. L. Dana about 1935

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: 8.1955.20
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 256, reproduced in b/w fig. 600

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