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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1955.231
People
Copy after (After) Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Attributed to Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American (Charlestown, MA 1791 - 1872 New York, NY)
Title
Danger: Nude Male Lying on a Rock, High Above a Landscape
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Danger - a nude male figure lying on an overhanging cliff
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1839
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305888

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on thin ivory wove tracing paper
Dimensions
18.1 x 20.8 cm (7 1/8 x 8 3/16 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
8.1955.231
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 51, p. 10
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "The Drawings of Washington Allston: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, 1977), no. 247B, reproduced in b/w fig. 590

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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