John Singleton Copley* (1738-1815)

Details

John Singleton Copley* (1738-1815)

Study for 'The Siege of Gibraltar'

pencil and chalk on blue paper
11½ x 22in. (28.5 x 56cm.) (sight)

Provenance

Sale: London, Christie's, Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. Lord Lyndhurst, February 26-27, 1865, lot 661
Edward Basil Jupp, London
Armory Family, Boston
Linzee Armory, Boston
Charles D. Childs Gallery, Boston
Old Print Shop, New York

Literature

J. D. Prown, John Singleton Copley in England, 1774-1815 (Vol. II), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966, p. 451, fig. 535, illus.

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Friends Collect, June 1973

Lot Essay

This drawing, executed between 1786 and 1787, is a study of the figure from the cannon group found within the final painting, 'The Seige of Gibraltar'. The major oil was completed in 1791 and is in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

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