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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.19
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Sketches of Napoleon, President Willard, and Mrs. Timothy Waterhouse
Other Titles
Former Title: Series of caricatures full-length and heads
Former Title: 17 head studies; a full-length caricature of Napoleon and President Willard; a seated full-length portrait of Mrs. Timothy Waterhouse
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1798 - 1799
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305445

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and graphite on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
40.9 x 32 cm (16 1/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in image, brown ink, in artist's hand: The Firmament is not darkened / [ ] messengers black firmament
  • inscription: in image, brown ink, in artist's hand: [Napoleon's word balloon:] Behold the conqueror of Egypt

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
8.1955.19
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, "Allston at Harvard 1796 to 1800", Cambridge Historical Society. Publications, Proceedings for the Year 1943 (Cambridge, MA, 1948), vol. 29, ill. p.
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 192, reproduced in b/w fig. 493

Verification Level

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