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Study for "The Pepperell Family" : Mother and four children

(American, 1738–1815)
1778
Medium/TechniqueBlack and white chalk on gray prepared paper
DimensionsSheet: 28.6 x 43.5 cm (11 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
Credit LineThe M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession number39.276
On View
Not on view
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