Sketch for "Siege of Gibraltar"

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Singleton Copley

Title

Sketch for "Siege of Gibraltar"

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

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1785–1789

Medium

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: J.S. Copley / Sketch Siege of Gib; upper left, in graphite: 7193 in circle; lower right, in graphite: 24

Dimensions

32.9 × 25.2 cm (13 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.121

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