Medium:
Pen and ink with brush and wash, over graphite on paper
Credit Line:
Committee for Art Acquisitions Fund
Accession Number:
1983.260
Object Label
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator and Director of the Curatorial Fellowship Program, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University: In 1783, the American painter John Singleton Copley completed a 22-by-25-foot canvas commemorating a recent naval battle in which Britain defeated its longtime enemies, Spain and France. Copley’s painting so impressed King George III that the monarch had a temporary gallery built for it at Green Park in London. Bartolozzi capitalized on the popularity of the painting and its public exhibition. This drawing is the preparatory study for a small engraving announcing his intention to make and sell a large print after Copley’s painting.
Provenance
Charles Mewès
Bibliography
L. Eitner, B.G. Fryberger, C.M. Osborne, The Drawing Collection (Stanford, 1993), p. 325, no. 169
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oceans
The main water areas of the earth, lying in basins; for shallow salt water areas lying on the margins of continents, use "seas." [March 1993 related term added.]
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