8.1955.210: Left Ear, for "Beatrice"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.210
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Left Ear, for "Beatrice"
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Study of an Ear
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1819
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305729
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.8 x 10.2 cm (4 5/8 x 4 in.)
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
- 8.1955.210
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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. 57, p. 11
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 114, reproduced in b/w fig. 300
- 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. 229, cat. 89, ill.
- Diana J. Strazdes, "Washington Allston's 'Beatrice'", Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1994), vol. 6, pp. 63-75, p. 69, fig. 7
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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