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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.1
People
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Figure Study for "Monmouth Before James II Refusing to Give the Names of His Accomplices"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1795
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306649

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk over graphite on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
34.9 x 28.6 cm (13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, l.l.: J. S. Copley
  • inscription: verso, lower edge, graphite: J. S. Copley
  • label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, red ink, typed: Harvard / SL.65.60.7

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Victor Winthrop Newman; sold by estate to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is a study for the central figure in John Singleton Copley's oil painting "Monmouth Before James II," in the Harvard Art Museums's collection. See 1957.225.

Publication History

  • Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), no. 6 p. xii, repr. as pl. 6
  • John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1965), pp. 121-122, cat. 95, ill.
  • Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), p. 444, repr. b/w plate 603
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 11, ill.
  • Kimberly Orcutt, Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 9, 12, fig. 11
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 158, fig. 29

Exhibition History

  • American Drawings, 17th through 20th Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1948 - 05/30/1948
  • John Singleton Copley, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/18/1965 - 10/31/1965; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/20/1965 - 01/02/1966; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 01/22/1966 - 03/06/1966
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Process and Paradox: The Historical Pictures of John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/08/2004 - 08/29/2004
  • HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008

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