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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.570
People
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Mercy Greenleaf Scollay (Mrs. John Scollay) (1719-1793)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1764
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307934

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white and colored chalks, and brown ink on buff laid paper mounted to board
Dimensions
sight: 56 x 43.8 cm (22 1/16 x 17 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, l.l.: JSC [in monogram] 1764
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS / Artist, [handwritten:] John Singleton Copley / [Printed:] Subject, {handwritten:] Portrait Mrs. John Scollay, 1764 / [printed:] Owner, / [handwritten:] Miss Mary Ann Bigelow / [printed:] Date of loan, / [handwritten:] March 29 1883

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Presumably from the artist to Mr. and Mrs. John Scollay, 1764; by descent to their granddaughter, Mary Ann (Mrs. Jacob) Bigelow, by descent to her granddaughter, Mrs. Daniel Sargent; Julius Weitzner, New York, NY; his sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1942; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.570
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Augustus Thorndyke Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, J. R. Osgood & Company (Boston, MA, 1873), p. 106
  • Frank William Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, The Garden Press, W. B. Libby (Boston, MA, 1910), p. 98
  • Barbara N. Parker and Anne Bolling Wheeler, John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel and Miniature, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1938), p. 179, 229
  • Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 1, p. 228, pl. 106
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 242
  • Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Unicorn Press (London, 2006), p. 129
  • 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), pp. 131-132, cat. 82, ill.

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