8.1955.212: Female Head, for "Miriam the Prophetess"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.212

People

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

Title

Female Head, for "Miriam the Prophetess"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1821

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305738

Location

Location

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

Black and white chalk on blue wove paper

Dimensions

28.3 x 28.2 cm (11 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: verso, l.l., paper: 286

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

8.1955.212

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David Carew Huntington, Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, exh. cat., ed. Robert A. Yassin (Ann Arbor, MI, 1972), p. 31, cat. 7, pl. 17
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 71, reproduced in b/w fig. 182

Exhibition History

• Art and the Excited Spirit: America in the Romantic Period, University of Michigan Museum of Art
• 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/2025 - 05/05/2025

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