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Recto: Study for the Figure of Princess Mary (Daughters of George III) Verso: Studies from the Antique(?)
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
1774–85
Medium/Technique
Recto: Pencil and white chalk on blue paper
Verso: Black and white chalk
Verso: Black and white chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 27.9 x 34 cm (11 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.261
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Recto: Prown, Copley II, p. 417, fig. 471
Verso: Prown, Copley II, p.458, fig. 336
DescriptionDrawing for "The Children of George III", 1785
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