8.1955.13: Man with Raised Arm; Man with Leg Bent, for "Angel of Wrath"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.13
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Man with Raised Arm; Man with Leg Bent, for "Angel of Wrath"
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Upper torso of a man and lower torso of a man
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1829 - 1833
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305443
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 26 x 39.4 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower edge, graphite: Sketches for Heliodorus (flying figure to the right)
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
- 8.1955.13
- 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. 74A, reproduced in b/w fig. 187
Verification Level
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