G4673: Youth Saved from a Shark

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G4673

People

Valentine Green, British (Salford, England 1739 - 1813 London)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Published by Valentine Green, British (Salford, England 1739 - 1813 London)

Title

Youth Saved from a Shark

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1779

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/277538

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Mezzotint on paper mounted on canvas

Technique

Mezzotint

Dimensions

image: 46.9 x 60.5 cm (18 7/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
sheet: 47.8 × 60.7 cm (18 13/16 × 23 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower center, under image, cut off: [illegible]
• inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Presented by / Mrs. Pelham Copley's daughter
• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: a
• inscription: verso, lower left, black ink: Copley pinxt
• inscription: verso, lower right, black ink: V. Green sc

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Singleton Copley, London, gift, via his mother, Mrs. Pelham; to Harvard College, 1781

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Clayton 261

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of John Singleton Copley

Object Number

G4673

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. 57, Fig. 12 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"

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