Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.176
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Other Titles: Former Title: Portrait Study - Head of a Young Man
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1805 - 1806
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305650

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

28.7 x 23.1 cm (11 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 243

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: 8.1955.176
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. 197, reproduced in b/w fig. 509

Verification Level

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