Copernicus

Provenance

University Observatory, Oxford, from before 1920-c.1960 [according to Lowell Libson, Spink-Leger Pictures]. Victor Clube, Worcestershire, to Spink-Leger Pictures, March 2000 [according to Libson]. Sold to the Art Institute, 2000.

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 28.

Quick Overview

Artist: James Nasmyth / Scottish, 1808-1890
Date: 1867
Medium: Black and white chalk, graphite, touches of blue pencil, with scale in pen and brown ink, on gray wove paper with blue fibers, squared in graphite
Dimensions: 33 × 48.2 cm (13 × 19 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: chalk
Place: United Kingdom
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments
Accession no.: 2000.406

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.