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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G4271
People
Abraham Raimbach, British, English (1776 - 1843)
After Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian (Florence, Italy 1727 - 1815 Lisbon, Portugal)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Key to the Death of the Earl of Chatham
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1791
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276021

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 24.3 × 80.9 cm (9 9/16 × 31 7/8 in.)
plate: 23 × 80.9 cm (9 1/16 × 31 7/8 in.)
framed: 37.8 × 92.4 × 3.2 cm (14 7/8 × 36 3/8 × 1 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired in the 19th century

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
T. 1213

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Accession Year
1818
Object Number
G4271
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Abraham Raimbach, Memoirs and Recollections of the Late Abraham Raimbach, Esq., Frederick Shoberl Junior (London, 1843), p. 12-13 [reference citation]
  • Andrew White Tuer, Bartolozzi and his Works: A Biographical and Descriptive Account of the Life and Career of Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A., Field & Tuer (London, 1882), pp. 45-47 [reference citation]
  • 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. 109, Plate 45b; ; p. 58 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"

Exhibition History

Related Works

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