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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.237
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Boy in Landscape; verso: Eastern Female Figure
Other Titles
Former Title: Boy in Landscape; verso: Eastern Female Figure, for "Saul..."
Former Title: Italian Boy in landscape; verso: eastern female figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1820
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305844

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and white chalk on brown board; verso: brown wash and white chalk
Dimensions
irregular: 57.9 x 49.2 cm (22 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, l.l., paper: 490CG
  • label: verso, l.r., black ink and graphite on white fabric tape: [black ink:] Allston, W. / Eastern Female Figure / Deposited by the Heirs of W. Allston / 76.794; [graphite:] Attic 50851
  • label: verso, u.l., blue ink on paper: [on white label with decorative blue border:] 30 [or 3C?]
  • inscription: l.l., white chalk: [15?]

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
8.1955.237
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), Verso, no. 69A, fig. 172, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 66, cat. 20, ill.

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