Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Sketch for "Siege of Gibraltar"
John Singleton Copley · 1785–89
Provenance
Ownership history
- Lord Aberdare (direct descendant of artist). Sold by Thomas Agnew, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, February 16, 1968.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, John Singleton Copley, 1966.
- AIC, Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings, Dec. 11, 1998– Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 39.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 78, cat. 49 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 78, cat. 49 (ill.).
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