Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar"
1783-1786
Artist, American, 1738 - 1815
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Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.64 × 32.86 cm (8 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.873
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist, London, England; Lord Lyndhurst (John Singelton Copley, Jr.), London, England, 1815; (Lyndhurst Library Sale, Christie's, London, England, 1864); Edward Basil Jupp, London, England; Amory Family, Boston, Massachusetts; (Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1956; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1966
Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley, vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966, p. 449, fig. 517 (as "Study for Figures Clinging to Wreckage").
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 1, no. 3.
Inscriptions
upper right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 11; lower left corner in graphite by unknown hand: 4; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand; 8791 No. 11 $100-
Watermarks
CP TCH
Wikidata ID
Q64584140