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Moonlit River Landscape with Ruins, Boats and Figures by Washington Allston — VisualArtsDB

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Moonlit River Landscape with Ruins, Boats and Figures

Moonlit River Landscape with Ruins, Boats and Figures

Moonlit River Landscape with Ruins, Boats and Figures

Washington Allston

1818–1819

Medium: Graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions: 11.4 x 16.8 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Verso shows very slightly sketched seated figure in graphite.

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