8.1955.198: Left Hand, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.198
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Left Hand, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Hand with a pointing finger
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1821
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305775
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and white chalk and graphite on blue-gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 21.9 x 29.2 cm (8 5/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 292
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
- 8.1955.198
- 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. 56B, reproduced in b/w fig. 134
- Jane Turner, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, Macmillan Publishers Limited (London, England, 2000), p. 9
Verification Level
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