Incipit
Maker
(artist)
1779-1843
(engraver)
1801-1885
(engraver)
1810-1856
1779-1843
(engraver)
1801-1885
(engraver)
1810-1856
Title
Incipit
Date of Production
1850
Medium
medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
Dimensions
Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 31.8 cm
Width: 31.8 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3578.2
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : printed : full page & recto : : The Outlines and Sketches contained in this Volume, are part / of those found in Mr. Allston's Studio, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, / after his death, in July, 1843. / They consist in great part of compositions, hastily sketched in / chalk, and never carried further; among them, however, are a few / Outlines in umber, on canvass, which, although more carefully done, / should not be considered as finished Outlines, since they were / intended merely as a ground work on which to paint. the sizes / of the figures in the different compositions vary, from that of life, / to a few inches in length; and where it was necessary to reduce / them for engraving, the daguerreotype was used, by which the / image was conveyed to the engraver's plates, prepared for that / purpose, and there fixed by tracing the line through the silver. / BOSTON, JANUARY 1, 1850. //
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