G191: Death of the Earl of Chatham

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G191

People

Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian (Florence, Italy 1727 - 1815 Lisbon, Portugal)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)

Title

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/276486

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

image: 56.8 × 77.3 cm (22 3/8 × 30 7/16 in.)
sheet: 65.4 × 81 cm (25 3/4 × 31 7/8 in.)
framed: 83.8 × 104.3 × 4.1 cm (33 × 41 1/16 × 1 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

between ii and iii

Standard Reference Number

T. 1213

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Accession Year

1792

Object Number

G191

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. 109, Plate 45a; p. 58 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; The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 04/17/2018 - 07/15/2018

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