8.1955.149: Tracing of Five Soldiers on a Hill, for "Gabriel Setting the Watch"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.149
- People
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Attributed to Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Tracing of Five Soldiers on a Hill, for "Gabriel Setting the Watch"
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Soldiers in antique dress running over a hill
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1833
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305657
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black crayon on yellowed tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 25.2 x 37.8 cm (9 15/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: l.r., black crayon: Traced from the chalk sketch
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 8.1955.149
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Washington Allston, Outlines and Sketches (Boston, MA, 1850), no. 2
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 86A, reproduced in b/w fig. 231
Verification Level
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