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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child)
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
1782–84
Medium/Technique
Black and white chalk on blue laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.9 x 55.9 cm (13 3/4 x 22 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.266
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Prown, Copley II, fig. 460; p.446
DescriptionStudy 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.