About the Artwork
Head of Figure on Far Left
between 1777 and 1778
John Singleton Copley
1738-1815
American
Unknown
Black chalk heightened with white on green-gray paper
Sheet (irregular): 11 7/8 × 9 3/8 inches (30.2 × 23.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
48.201
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA)
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Newberry, John S. "Four Drawings by Copley," Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 2 (1949): pp. 33-35, p. 33 (fig. 2).
Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley, vol. 2 [of 2]. Cambridge, 1966, viii, pp. 272–274, (fig. 376).
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John Singleton Copley, Head of Figure on Far Left, between 1777 and 1778, black chalk heightened with white on green-gray paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 48.201.
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