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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G4408
People
Robert Dunkarton, British (1744 - before 1817)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Earl Spencer (George John)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1801
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/275721

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mezzotint on paper mounted on canvas
Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
sheet: 67.1 × 46.5 cm (26 7/16 × 18 5/16 in.)
framed: 74.3 × 53.5 × 3.2 cm (29 1/4 × 21 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gardiner Greene, gift; to Harvard University, 1818

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Sm. 37

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of Gardiner Greene
Accession Year
1818
Object Number
G4408
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 132, Plate 68; 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

Verification Level

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