AT-00017253
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Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Two Dead Figures
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London)
- Date
- 1782–83
- Medium
- Black chalk and white-chalk heightening on light blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 14 3/16 x 23 in. (36 x 58.4 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1960
- Accession no.
- 60.44.14 verso
Provenance
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