8.1955.209: Head of a Woman, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.209
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Head of a Woman, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Female head
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1829
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305736
Location
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2240, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Arts in the Eighteenth–Century Atlantic World
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red chalk on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 15 x 19.8 cm (5 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: verso, paper: 283
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
- 8.1955.209
- 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. 61A, reproduced in b/w fig. 142
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/2025 - 05/05/2025
Verification Level
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