8.1955.136: Flying Figures, for "Fairies...;" verso: Running and Flying Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.136

People

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

Title

Flying Figures, for "Fairies...;" verso: Running and Flying Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1829 - 1833

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305608

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

18 x 11 cm (7 1/16 x 4 5/16 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

8.1955.136

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This work is joined to 8.1955.138 with tissue. They were originally part of the same sheet, torn vertically.

Publication History

• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 133C, repro. in b/w fig. 362 (with 8.1955.138); verso, no. 133D, fig. 363
• 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. 241-242, cat. 100, ill.

Exhibition History

• "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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