8.1955.118: Heads of a Girl and a Turbaned Man; verso: Hand Studies and Man in Profile

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.118

People

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

Title

Heads of a Girl and a Turbaned Man; verso: Hand Studies and Man in Profile

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Head of a girl and study of a male head with turban in profile at side; verso: half-length study of a young man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1835

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305561

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

10.1 x 9.2 cm (4 x 3 5/8 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

8.1955.118

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Figure on verso is cut off as if support was cut down from larger sheet.

Publication History

• Elizabeth Johns, "Washington Allston: Method, Imagination and Reality", Winterthur Portfolio (Wilmington, DE, 1977), vol. 12, pp. 1-18, p. 15, fig. 15
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 129A, reproduced in b/w fig. 345; verso, 129B, fig. 346

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