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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.242
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Gabriel, for "Gabriel Setting the Watchat the Gates of Paradise"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1830 - 1833
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305863

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White chalk on brown cardboard
Dimensions
60.2 x 52.8 cm (23 11/16 x 20 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, paper: 487CB
  • inscription: verso, black ink and graphite: [black ink:] Allston, W. / Michael Setting the Watch / Deposited by the Heirs of Allston / 76.793 / [graphite:] Attic 50851

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
8.1955.242
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Washington Allston, Outlines and Sketches (Boston, MA, 1850), no. 1
  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 211, no. 141
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 85, reproduced in b/w fig. 230

Verification Level

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