- Title:
- Study for the Central Group in the "Death of Earl of Chatham"
- Date:
- 1778
- Materials & Techniques:
- Black and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (26.4 x 31.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in later hand in graphite upper left sideways: "Study for principal | Group in Picture of the | Death of Lord Chatham | J.S. Copley R.A."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1077
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- deaths | earls | figure study | men | noblemen | studies (visual works) | wars
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12693
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David Alexander, Painters and Engraving: The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 53, no. 105, NE631.2 .A43 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : An important collection of English 18th century drawings and watercolours : 12 November 1968, Christie's, 1968, p. 14, lot 28, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
Jules D. Prown, John Singleton Copley ..., 1, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, vol. 2, pp. 275-291, NJ18 C75 +P76 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 184-5, no. 157, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]