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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G4571
People
Anthony Fogg, British (active 1792-1805)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Priam Beseeching Achilles for the Body of Hector
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1799
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/241429

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stipple engraving on paper mounted on canvas
Technique
Stipple engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 45.4 × 55.7 cm (17 7/8 × 21 15/16 in.)
plate: 44.2 × 55 cm (17 3/8 × 21 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gardiner Greene, gift; to Harvard University, 1818

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of Gardiner Greene
Accession Year
1818
Object Number
G4571
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 133, Plate 69; p. 28, pp. 37-38 as part of Fig. 28 in Ethan W. Lasser's "Harvard's Teaching Cabinet"; p. 59 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"

Exhibition History

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