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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.204
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Silenus and Fauns
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Silenus and two fauns
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1826
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305727

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions
20.4 x 19.8 cm (8 1/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower edge, brown ink: Silenus and Fauns / Wa. Allston inv't 1826 [Bolton catalogue raisonné describes this as not inscribed by the artist]

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
8.1955.204
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. 132B, reproduced in b/w fig. 356

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