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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1839.A
People
Unidentified Artist
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Unfinished Copy after Sketch for the "Death of Chatham," after Copley
Other Titles
Former Title: The Death of the Earl of Chatham
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229757

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
111.3 x 151.9 cm (43 13/16 x 59 13/16 in.)
framed: 118.8 x 159.4 x 3.5 cm (46 3/4 x 62 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Copley Amory, Sr.; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Copley Amory Sr.
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1839.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 2
  • Salute to William Pitt, exh. cat., Chatham College (Pittsburgh, PA, 1958), no. 9, p. 11, detail reproduced in b/w, plate III, p. 8

Exhibition History

  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
  • A Salute to William Pitt, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, 11/15/1958 - 06/08/1959

Verification Level

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