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Silenus and Fauns, for "Silenus and the Fauns;" Two Angels; Five Figures Dancing; verso: Engraving of ecorché figure from an anatomy textbook
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Drawing made on the back of an engraving of an ecorché from an anatomy textbook.
Department of Drawings
To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust 1862.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Title: Silenus and Fauns, for "Silenus and the Fauns;" Two Angels; Five Figures Dancing; verso: Engraving of ecorché figure from an anatomy textbook
Description:
Drawing made on the back of an engraving of an ecorché from an anatomy textbook.
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