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Female Head, for "Mother Watching her Sleeping Child" by Washington Allston — VisualArtsDB

Female Head, for "Mother Watching her Sleeping Child"

Female Head, for "Mother Watching her Sleeping Child"

Washington Allston

1814

Medium: Graphite and black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions: 18.4 x 15.2 cm (7 1/4 x 6 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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American

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