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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child)
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child)

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child)

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
1782–84
Medium/TechniqueBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 34.9 x 55.9 cm (13 3/4 x 22 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.266
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
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.
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Officer Leading Troops and Wounded Drummer; verso: Robed Figure and Two Geometric Torso Studies)
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Officer Leading Troops and Wounded Drummer; verso: Robed Figure and Two Geometric Torso Studies)
John Singleton Copley
1782–84
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Young Boy and Fleeing Mother and Child)
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Young Boy and Fleeing Mother and Child)
John Singleton Copley
1782–84
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Fleeing Mother and Child; verso: Wounded Soldier holding a Musket)
John Singleton Copley
1782–84
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Officers supporting Major Peirson, Fleeing Woman and Child)
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Officers supporting Major Peirson, Fleeing Woman and Child)
John Singleton Copley
1782–84
Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Dying French Officer and Other Figures)
John Singleton Copley
1782–84
Recto: Study for the Figure of Princess Mary (Daughters of George III)
Verso: Studies from the Antique(?)
John Singleton Copley
1774–85
Studies for " The Knatchbull Family" Recto: Mother and child/ and two children Verso: Lady Knatchbull and child; two children playing
Studies for " The Knatchbull Family"
Recto: Mother and child/ and two children
Verso: Lady Knatchbull and child; two children playing
John Singleton Copley
1800–03
Study for "The Knatchbull Family": A Daughter ( figure at right)
Study for "The Knatchbull Family": A Daughter ( figure at right)
John Singleton Copley
1800–03
Image Not Available for Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar" Running Male Figure (Figure on Cannon in Longboat)
Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar" Running Male Figure (Figure on Cannon in Longboat)
John Singleton Copley
1785–88
Image Not Available for Study for "The Knatchbull Family" : Mother and two Children
Study for "The Knatchbull Family" : Mother and two Children
John Singleton Copley
1800–03
Study for "The Knatchbull Family" : Lady Knatchbull and Child
Study for "The Knatchbull Family" : Lady Knatchbull and Child
John Singleton Copley
1800–03
Seated Boy and Girl in a Landscape
Seated Boy and Girl in a Landscape
John Singleton Copley
1783–88