Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.168
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780-1838); verso: Study for Female Head
Other Titles
Former Title: Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780-1838); verso: Catherine Beckford Baldwin (Mrs. Loammi Baldwin, Jr.)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1823
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228427

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on composition board
Dimensions
59.5 x 49.4 cm (23 7/16 x 19 7/16 in.)
framed: 79.4 x 70.5 x 5.7 cm (31 1/4 x 27 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., in graphite.: Painted by Washington Allston 18[43?]. l.r. [in different hand]: L. Baldwin 1823

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the Baldwin family by Robert Rantoul Endicott; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. Robert Rantoul Endicott
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.168
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Thomas W. Leavitt, "Washington Allston at Harvard", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, April 21, 1956), vol. 58, no. 13, ill. p. 552
  • Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, p. 879
  • Nathalia Wright, ed., The Correspondence of Washington Allston, The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY, 1993), p. 533
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 67, cat. 21, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Washington Allston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/01/1881 - 09/01/1881

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu