Study of Ann Channing Allston, for "The Valentine;" verso: Female Head

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 8.1955.249
People: Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title: Study of Ann Channing Allston, for "The Valentine;" verso: Female Head
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Ideal female head
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1814
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305864

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Graphite and black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper; verso: black and whi
Dimensions: 11.8 x 12.6 cm (4 5/8 x 4 15/16 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: 8.1955.249
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), no. 104B, reproduced in b/w fig. 274; verso, no. 104C, fig. 275

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