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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.153
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Two Angels; Group of Three Angels' Heads, for "Jacob's Dream"
Other Titles
Former Title: Two Groups of Angels from "Jacob's Dream"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1817
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305705

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on yellowed wove tracing paper mounted to tissue
Dimensions
45.1 x 60.1 cm (17 3/4 x 23 11/16 in.)
mount: 53.9 x 68.9 cm (21 1/4 x 27 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, paper: 221

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
8.1955.153
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Washington Allston, Outlines and Sketches (Boston, MA, 1850)
  • Jared B. Flagg, The Life and Letters of Washington Allston, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1892), ill. p. 132
  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and memorabilia, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1947), no. 61, p. 11; reproduced in b/w p. 35
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 41C, reproduced in b/w fig. 83
  • 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), pp. 234, 239, cat. 94, ill.
  • Dorinda Evans, Benjamin West and his American Pupils, exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C, 1980), fig. 140

Exhibition History

  • Washington Allston, 1779-1843: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/11/1947 - 06/15/1947; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/17/1947 - 08/24/1947
  • "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

Verification Level

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