8.1955.153: Two Angels; Group of Three Angels' Heads, for "Jacob's Dream"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.153
- People
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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
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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
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- label: verso, paper: 221
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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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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