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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.243
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Tree with Rocks and Plants in Foreground
Other Titles
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
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
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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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