8.1955.130: Several Views of a Post and Beam with Diagonal Brace and Rope Attached to Weight

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.130

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Several Views of a Post and Beam with Diagonal Brace and Rope Attached to Weight

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Several designs for pulleys; verso: designs in pencil that have been scribbled

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1839 - 1843?

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305699

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

7.2 x 12 cm (2 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: verso, paper: 196
• inscription: in image, graphite, in artist's hand: [top edge:] d. little wheel to push out the support; [l.r.:] [encircled:] not used; [erased:] c. without teeth; [erased:] A to slide up & / down / 6" hinge
• inscription: verso, graphite: the other side / of this

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

8.1955.130

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 295B, reproduced in b/w fig. 646

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