Study for the 'Death of Major Peirson' (Tate Gallery) (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1738-1815
1738-1815
Title
Study for the 'Death of Major Peirson' (Tate Gallery) (recto)
Date of Production
1782 - 1784
Medium
pen and brown ink on rough laid paper (recto and verso)
Dimensions
Height: 33.4 cm
Width: 23.8 cm
Width: 23.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1838.1
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Twenty-One Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Death of Major Pierson, Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, St Helier, Jersey, 18/04/2012-21/10/2012
1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14/04/1976-02/10/1976
John Singleton Copley: American portraits in oil, pastel and miniature. With biographical sketches., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/02/1938-15/03/1938
1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14/04/1976-02/10/1976
John Singleton Copley: American portraits in oil, pastel and miniature. With biographical sketches., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/02/1938-15/03/1938
Literature
Downie, Louise and Doug Ford, 1781: the battle of Jersey and the Death of Major Peirson, St Helier 2012
p. 45
Fig. p. 46
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13
p. 45
Fig. p. 46
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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