8.1955.82: Scene from "Henry VIII;" verso: Scene from "The Tempest"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.82

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Scene from "Henry VIII;" verso: Scene from "The Tempest"

Other Titles

Former Title: A three figure composition taken from Shakespeare's Henry VIII
Former Title: Theatrical Scene: Standing Woman and Man Gesticulating at Seated Woman; Head of Ariel; verso: Theatrical Scene: Two Figures Seated Behind a Man Standing with Upraised Arm, and Two Lightly Dr

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1819

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305532

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

19.6 x 24.6 cm (7 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: left edge, black ink: 96
• inscription: verso, graphite: Ferdinand / & / Miranda / 95; Prospero; Ariel
• label: removed from recto? [see curatorial file], paper: Henry VIII, Act 3 Sc 1 Wolsey to Catherine

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

8.1955.82

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. 266A, reproduced in b/w fig. 612; verso, no. 266B, fig. 613

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