Study of a Male Head and Nose, for "Belshazzar's Feast"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.51
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Study of a Male Head and Nose, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
Other Titles: Former Title: Portrait Study - Male head
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1820 - 1821
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305564

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

24.3 x 19.3 cm (9 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 117

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: 8.1955.51
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Verso has very faint sketch of head and shoulders in white chalk.

Publication History

Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 52D, reproduced in b/w fig. 127

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8.1955.51: Study of a Male Head and Nose, for "Belshazzar's Feast"