G4673: Youth Saved from a Shark
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G4673
- People
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Valentine Green, British (Salford, England 1739 - 1813 London)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Published by Valentine Green, British (Salford, England 1739 - 1813 London)
- Title
- Youth Saved from a Shark
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1779
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/277538
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mezzotint on paper mounted on canvas
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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image: 46.9 x 60.5 cm (18 7/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
sheet: 47.8 × 60.7 cm (18 13/16 × 23 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower center, under image, cut off: [illegible]
- inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Presented by / Mrs. Pelham Copley's daughter
- inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: a
- inscription: verso, lower left, black ink: Copley pinxt
- inscription: verso, lower right, black ink: V. Green sc
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- John Singleton Copley, London, gift, via his mother, Mrs. Pelham; to Harvard College, 1781
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Clayton 261
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of John Singleton Copley
- Object Number
- G4673
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 57, Fig. 12 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"
Verification Level
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