8.1955.35: Spalatro's Head, for "Spalatro's Vision..."

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.35

People

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

Title

Spalatro's Head, for "Spalatro's Vision..."

Other Titles

Former Title: Bust of a Man with Frightened Staring Eyes

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1830

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305537

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

12.2 x 10.8 cm (4 13/16 x 4 1/4 in.)

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

8.1955.35

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. 81E, reproduced in b/w fig. 214
• 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), pp. 237-238, cat. 97, ill.
• Sarah Burns, Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America, University of California Press (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 2004), p. 92, fig. 50

Exhibition History

• "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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