Heads of Two Women, for "Christ Healing the Sick"; verso: Two Profiles

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.42
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Heads of Two Women, for "Christ Healing the Sick"; verso: Two Profiles
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Head and shoulders of two figures who are staring up; verso: two profiles
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1813
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305550

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

13.2 x 13.1 cm (5 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: verso, paper: 316

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: 8.1955.42
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. 27A, reproduced in b/w fig. 66A; verso, no. 27B, fig. 66B
John Dillenberger, The Visual Arts and Christianity in America: The Colonial Period through the Nineteenth Century, Scholars Press (Chico, CA, 1984), p. 141

Verification Level

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