8.1955.36: Study for "Ship in a Squall"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.36

People

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

Title

Study for "Ship in a Squall"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1830s

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305583

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

10.8 x 8.4 cm (4 1/4 x 3 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, left edge, graphite, in artist's hand: 4 times less than / [illegible, cut off]
• label: verso, l.l., paper: 102

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

8.1955.36

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. 187C, fig. 483
• 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. 214, 240, fig. 79
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 64-65, fig. 13

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