G4675: Eli and Samuel
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G4675
- People
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Valentine Green, British (Salford, England 1739 - 1813 London)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
- Title
- Eli and Samuel
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1780
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/277796
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mezzotint on paper mounted on canvas
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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sheet: 66.7 × 51.8 cm (26 1/4 × 20 3/8 in.)
image: 66.1 × 50.8 cm (26 × 20 in.)
framed: 73.8 × 58.6 × 3.2 cm (29 1/16 × 23 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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John Singleton Copley, London, gift; to Harvard College, 1782
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Le Bl. 2
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of John Singleton Copley
- Accession Year
- 1782
- Object Number
- G4675
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Ethan Lasser, "A Classroom in the Age of Enlightenment", The Magazine Antiques (New York, NY, 2017), Fig. 9
- 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. 90, Plate 26; p. 57 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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