Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child; verso: Wounded Soldier holding a Musket)

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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child; verso: Wounded Soldier holding a Musket)

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

1782–84

Medium/Technique Black and white chalk on blue laid paper, with scale for enlargement in graphite pencil

Dimensions Sheet: 34.9 x 56.5 cm (13 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.)

Credit Line The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts

Accession Number39.265a-b

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Prown, Copley II, fig. 462, p. 442; verso: fig. 456, p. 442

DescriptionStudies for "Death of Major Peirson"

ProvenanceThe artist until 1815; his son, John Singleton Copley, Jr., Lord Lyndhurst, until 1863; Lyndhurst Library sale, February 26-27, 1864; to Graves; Weyhe Galleries, NY, about 1929, to Maxim Karolik (Newport) for MFA, January 1939.