Currently not on view
Study for the Helmsman in The Siege of Gibraltar,
ca. 1788 – 1789
John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815; born Boston, MA; died London, England
x1949-250
Information
Title
Study for the Helmsman in The Siege of Gibraltar
Dates
ca. 1788 – 1789
Maker
Medium
Recto: Black chalk heightened with white chalk
Verso: Black chalk
Dimensions
36.2 x 18.2 cm. (14 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
x1949-250
Inscription
in graphite, lower left: Siege of Gibraltar
Culture
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Lord Lyndhurst (artist's son); his sale, Christie's, London, February 26-27, 1864, lot 661; Sir Edward Basel Jupp, London; Linzee Amory (son of Martha Babcock Amory, the artist's granddaughter), Boston; Harry Shaw Newman Gallery (Old Print Shop), New York.
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 1 (1950): 22., p. 22
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., p. 132
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 335, checklist no. 763 (illus.)
