Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar"

Provenance

the artist, London, England; Lord Lyndhurst (John Singelton Copley, Jr.), London, England, 1815; (Lyndhurst Library Sale, Christie's, London, England, 1864); Edward Basil Jupp, London, England; Amory Family, Boston, Massachusetts; (Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1956; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar"

Copley, John Singleton

1783-1786

Accession Number

2015.19.873

Medium

pen and brown ink with graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.64 × 32.86 cm (8 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Josephine Boardman Crane)