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Abacus and Columns in Perspective, for "Belshazzar's Feast"
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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
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