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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Dying French Officer and Other Figures)
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
1782–84
Medium/Technique
Black and white chalk on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in graphite pencil, with notes in graphite pencil and pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.6 x 56.8 cm (13 5/8 x 22 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.270
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Prown, Copley II, fig. 455; p.442
ProvenanceThe artist until 1815; his son, John Singleton Copley, Jr., Lord Lyndhurst, until 1863; Lyndhurst Library sale, 26-27 Feb., 1864; to Graves; Weyhe Galleries, NY, about 1929, to Maxim Karolik, Newport for Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 1939