Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Officers supporting Major Peirson; verso: Nude Composition Study and Officer Leading Troops)

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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Officers supporting Major Peirson; verso: Nude Composition Study and Officer Leading Troops)

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

1782–84

Medium/Technique Graphite pencil on cream laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 20 x 32.7 cm (7 7/8 x 12 7/8 in.)

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

Accession Number39.268a-b

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Prown, Copley II, fig. 448, 452; p. 441

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.