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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Dying French Officer and Other Figures)

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson" (Dying French Officer and Other Figures)

John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
1782–84
Medium/TechniqueBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in graphite pencil, with notes in graphite pencil and pen and brown ink
DimensionsSheet: 34.6 x 56.8 cm (13 5/8 x 22 3/8 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.270
On View
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ClassificationsDrawings
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