Baruch's Drapery, for "Jeremiah Dictating..."

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.156
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Baruch's Drapery, for "Jeremiah Dictating..."
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Drapery study
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1819
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305613

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

22.4 x 23.5 cm (8 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: verso, paper: 116

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: 8.1955.156
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 67B, reproduced in b/w fig. 163

Verification Level

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