8.1955.183: Belshazzar, for "Belshazzar's Feast"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.183

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Belshazzar, for "Belshazzar's Feast"

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Study for the King in Belshazzar's Feast

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1820

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305707

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

25.1 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower edge, graphite: sketch for Belshassar (?) R.H.D.J.

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

8.1955.183

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 52A, reproduced in b/w fig. 124
• 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, 233, cat. 93, ill.

Exhibition History

• "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

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