1943.1839.A: Unfinished Copy after Sketch for the "Death of Chatham," after Copley

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

Permissions

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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

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