8.1955.75: Tree Beside a Path

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.75

People

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

Title

Tree Beside a Path

Other Titles

Former Title: Tree

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1804

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305643

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

21.1 x 21.6 cm (8 5/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: right side, graphite: R of WA [in a column:] / 5 / 60 / 50 / 50 / 70 / 235 [new column:] 5 / 60 / 50 / 50 / 70 / 235 / May 6th $6 / 94. August 3d - 100

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

8.1955.75

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. 153B, reproduced in b/w fig. 411
• 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), p. 213, cat. 78, 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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