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Study for the 'Death of Major Peirson' (Tate Gallery)
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1738-1815
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Width: 35.8 cm
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Exhibition History
Goya das zeitalter der Revolutionen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 17/10/1980-04/01/1981
1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14/04/1976-02/10/1976 ...More
Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 23/07/1968-01/02/1969
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
John Singleton Copley: American portraits in oil, pastel and miniature. With biographical sketches., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/02/1938-15/03/1938 ...Less
Literature
pp. 44-45
Illus. p. 45
John Singleton Copley in England, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1995-96
cat. no. 24
Illus. p. 147
Saunders, Richard H., 'Genius and glory: John Singleton Copley's "The Death of Major Peirson" in 'The American Art Journal', Autumn 1990 - pp. 4-39; 22, 3
p. 14
Illus. no. 10 ...More
Goya das zeitalter der Revolutionen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1980-1981
cat. no. 304
Illus. repr.
1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14 April - 2 October 1976, 1976
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1968 / 1969
cat. no. 173a
Illus. repr.
Prown, Jules David, John Singleton Copley. In England 1774-1815, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1966
p. 442
Illus. no. 451
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
cat. no. 11 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite, one arm of the letter longer than the other: "H" [?]. Mount (removed, now glued to new support): graphite: "Original Drawing by John Singleton Copley for the Picture of the Death of Major Pierson".
Collector's mark: none.
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