Figures for "Dido and Anna;" verso: Sketches for the Queen in "Belshazzar..."

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.171
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Figures for "Dido and Anna;" verso: Sketches for the Queen in "Belshazzar..."
Other Titles: Alternate Title: A seated woman with a standing nurse behind her holding a baby
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1808 - 1813
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305675

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

28.8 x 21.8 cm (11 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: verso, upper edge, graphite: Approaching in half shadow and not [word obsured by hinge] / thing but her companion

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: 8.1955.171
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. 99, reproduced in b/w fig. 262; verso, no. 45A, fig. 107

Verification Level

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