- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 8.1955.214
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Oval Landscape: Hunter with Rifle before a House and Fence
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Man hunting in a forest
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1800
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305740
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink and gray wash on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 18.2 cm (5 x 7 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, black and brown ink, in artist's hand: [brown ink, crossed out in black and brown ink:] To sprinkle roses from the bower of May; / Or patterns bringing from some curling vine, / Delight around the dimpling smile [ ] ; / That nectar'd lip [ ] designed to bear / A kiss from [one?], the love of dark despair; / That [ ] , so bright, yet mild to view, / That seems a star suffus'd in [ ] , / To [ ]. / And with a tear to quench my burning pain? / Deluded heart, the flattering dream dismiss.
- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 288
- Provenance
- To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
- Object Number
- 8.1955.214
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 144B, reproduced in b/w fig. 392
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