Tracing of Two Figures Seated on a Hilltop, for "Gabriel Setting the Watch"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.150
People: Attributed to Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Tracing of Two Figures Seated on a Hilltop, for "Gabriel Setting the Watch"
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Two figures with spear sitting on a rocky hill-top
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1833
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305611

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red crayon on glossy yellowed tracing paper

Dimensions

25.5 x 37.9 cm (10 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: lower edge, black crayon: Traced from the chalk sketch

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: 8.1955.150
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions: The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

Washington Allston, Outlines and Sketches (Boston, MA, 1850), no. 6
Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 86B, reproduced in b/w fig. 232

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Add to Collection

Log in to the Harvard Art Museums