Author
Washington Allston is documented in Fuller’s letters, published essays, and manuscripts (1841–1846). 4 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Margarett C. Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“ON GREENOUGH'S GROUP OF THE ANGEL AND CHILD. / I stood alone; nor word, nor other sound / Broke the mute solitude that clos'd me round; / As when the air doth take her midnight sleep, / Leaving the wintry stars her watch to keep,”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Please be very careful, not to [let] "Monaldi" soiled, as it is Sarah's book, and to return it by Mr C. at the end of a fortnight.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“When but a child, I saw Allston’s picture of the “Lady reading a Valentine,” and the mild womanliness of the picture, so remote from passion”
Fuller, Margaret. "St. Valentine’s Day—Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 February 1845. · 22 February 1845
“No one dreamed of any other hand being competent to finish out this work.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Belshazzar’s Feast . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 June 1846. · 12 June 1846
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“ON GREENOUGH'S GROUP OF THE ANGEL AND CHILD.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).
The poem was published in “The Sylphs of the Seasons with Other Poems” (London, 1813; Boston, 1813) and later reprinted in Lectures on Art, and Poems (New York: Baker & Scribner, 1850), edited by Richard Henry Dana Jr.