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Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar" Running Male Figure (Figure on Cannon in Longboat)
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
1785–88
Medium/Technique
Black and white chalk on blue paper, squared in graphite for transfer
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.9 x 52.7 cm (13 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.263
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Prown, Copley II, fig. 511, p. 499
DescriptionStudy for "Seige of Gibraltar"
This figure is omitted from the Guildhall painting of 1783-91, but is seen in the oild sketch at the Foundling Museum, London
This figure is omitted from the Guildhall painting of 1783-91, but is seen in the oild sketch at the Foundling Museum, London
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