G4571: Priam Beseeching Achilles for the Body of Hector

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G4571

People

Anthony Fogg, British (active 1792-1805)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)

Title

Priam Beseeching Achilles for the Body of Hector

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1799

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/241429

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Stipple engraving on paper mounted on canvas

Technique

Stipple engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 45.4 × 55.7 cm (17 7/8 × 21 15/16 in.)
plate: 44.2 × 55 cm (17 3/8 × 21 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gardiner Greene, gift; to Harvard University, 1818

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of Gardiner Greene

Accession Year

1818

Object Number

G4571

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 133, Plate 69; p. 28, pp. 37-38 as part of Fig. 28 in Ethan W. Lasser's "Harvard's Teaching Cabinet"; p. 59 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"

Exhibition History

• The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2017 - 12/31/2017

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