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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.213
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Oval Landscape: Trees and Bridge
Other Titles
Former Title: Bridge in Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1800
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305739

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
12.6 x 18.3 cm (4 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 7th stanza of verses in spring (Corydon and Phillida) "Allston July 10, 1799" Harvard [ ] see that artist.
  • inscription: verso, brown and black ink, in artist's hand: [in brown ink, crossed out in black ink:] Oh Phillida, hither [ ] /with [ ] pleasures of old; The pleasures which Spring [can?] unfold; Think once how [crossed out:] enchanted ["delighted" written in above] were you / With me a new Spring to behold. / But, alas, how all varied appear / Each scene open so full of delight! Those scenes which gave once such delight; Each [ ] is discord I hear / Each object is death to my sight [over "object is death" is written "flower a thorn"]

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
8.1955.213
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 144C, reproduced in b/w fig. 393

Verification Level

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