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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.27
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Two Sketches of a Ship at Sea, for "Ship in a Squall"
Other Titles
Former Title: Ship at Sea
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1829 - 1835
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305414

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on thin wove paper
Dimensions
12.4 x 14.8 cm (4 7/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, l.l., paper: 93
  • inscription: verso, brown ink, in artist's hand: My dear cousin Martha / I was to have left / this note by mother's / desire, as I went into / town this morning-- / I find on my return / I have been so negligent / as to forget it--

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
8.1955.27
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. 187B, reproduced in b/w fig. 482
  • William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 214
  • 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), pp. 64-65, fig. 12

Verification Level

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