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Identification and Creation

Object Number
114.1942
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Landscape Composition
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1829-1839
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232499

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.2 x 91.2 cm (28 13/16 x 35 7/8 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
114.1942
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Thomas W. Leavitt, "The Disposition of the Washington Allston Trust", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1956), vol. XIX, no. 4, pp. 415-417, p. 417
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 68, cat. 22, ill.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2023 - 12/30/2023

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