8.1955.51: Study of a Male Head and Nose, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.51
- People
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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
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- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 117
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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