8.1955.243: Tree with Rocks and Plants in Foreground
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 8.1955.243
- People
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Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
- Title
- Tree with Rocks and Plants in Foreground
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Tree among bushes and ferns
Former Title: Study of a Tree - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1804
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/305846
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.2 x 28.7 cm (8 3/4 x 11 5/16 in.)
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
- 8.1955.243
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Edgar P. Richardson, "Allston and the Development of Romantic Color", The Art Quarterly (Winter 1944), vol. VII, pp. 33-57, p. 46
- Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston, 1779-1843, a loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and memorabilia, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1947), no. 38, p. 9
- Thomas W. Leavitt, "Washington Allston at Harvard", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, April 21, 1956), vol. 58, no. 13, p. 551
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 150, reproduced in b/w fig. 403
Exhibition History
- Washington Allston, 1779-1843: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/11/1947 - 06/15/1947; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/17/1947 - 08/24/1947
Verification Level
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