8.1955.254: Study of Five Flying Figures, for "Fairies..."; verso: Peasant Family

Identification and Creation

Object Number

8.1955.254

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Study of Five Flying Figures, for "Fairies..."; verso: Peasant Family

Other Titles

Former Title: Flying figures; verso: peasant group
Former Title: Study for "Gabriel Setting the Watch"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1829 - 1833

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305865

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove

Dimensions

28.6 x 22 cm (11 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Odent & C.

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

8.1955.254

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 64, p. 11; recto reproduced in b/w, p. 36
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 134B, reproduced in b/w fig. 365; verso, no. 152, fig. 409

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

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