Head in profile and indecipherable marks

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.59
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Head in profile and indecipherable marks
Other Titles: Former Title: Spots of color and two heads; verso: color spots
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1796-1797
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305619

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: irregular: 9.8 x 7.5 cm (3 7/8 x 2 15/16 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: 8.1955.59
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. 300B, fig. 654
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), p. 52, cat. 10

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