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Incipit

Maker

(artist)
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

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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