Four Male Heads, for "Belshazzar's Feast"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.188
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Four Male Heads, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
Other Titles: Former Title: Four Male Heads
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1817
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305655

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on buff laid paper

Dimensions

18.2 x 13.2 cm (7 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: verso, paper: 260

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: 8.1955.188
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. 48B, reproduced in b/w fig. 113
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. 230

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