The Stoning of Saint Stephen
Medium
Iron-gall ink and white chalk on dark brown laid paper
Dimensions
21 1/4 x 27 7/8 in. (54 x 70.8 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Fenton L. B. Brown and Robert P. Gunn, in memory Henry Collins Flagg, 1979
Accession Number
1979.489
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Washington Allston · 1779–1843
**Washington Allston** (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet who pioneered the Romantic movement in American landscape painting. Born on a rice plantation along the Waccamaw River near Georgetown, South Carolina, he was the son of Captain William Allston, who died shortly after the Battle of Cowpens when Washington was a young child. His mother remarried Dr. Henry C. F...