id: 127537 accession number: 1950.216 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.216 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:15.122000 A Hussar Officer on Horseback, 1812. John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815). Black and white chalk; sheet: 27.6 x 22.1 cm (10 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1950.216 title: A Hussar Officer on Horseback title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1812 creation date earliest: 1812 creation date latest: 1812 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 18th century technique: black and white chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - American 18th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 27.6 x 22.1 cm (10 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: blue wove paper (faded) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso, lower left, in black chalk: Prince of Wales translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860 opening date: 1968-01-09T05:00:00 Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860. The Detroit Institute of Arts (organizer) (January 9-February 11, 1968); Philadelphia Museum of Art (March 14-April 21, 1968). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: America Draws opening date: 1984-12-28T05:00:00 America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exhibition of Drawings by John Singleton Copley. Harry Shaw Newman Gallery. New York, NY. (1947) 108, no. 9.', 'opening_date': '1947-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The artist [1738-1815], London, England. date: 1812-? footnotes: citations: John Singleton Copley, Jr., 1st Baron Lyndhurst (the artist’s son) [1772-1863], London, England. date: ?-1863 footnotes: citations: (The Lyndhurst Library Sale, Christie’s, London, 2/26/1864-2/27/1864, lot 670, likely sold to Edward Basil Jupp.) date: 1864 footnotes: citations: Edward Basil Jupp [1812-1877], London. date: 1864-? footnotes: citations: Passed down through the Amory family: Martha Babcock Amory (granddaughter of the artist) [1812-1880], Boston, MA; Edward Linzee Amory (great-grandson of the artist) [1844-1911], Boston, MA; Mr. Wallace (valet to Edward Linzee Amory), Foxborough, MA. Sold to Charles D. Childs Gallery. date: ?-probably 1950 footnotes: citations: (Charles D. Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art.) date: 1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1950- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Amory, Martha Babcock. The Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, RA. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1882. page number: Mentioned: pp. 270-71 url: Comstock, Helen. “Exhibition of Drawings by Copley.” Panorama by Harry Shaw Newman Gallery 2, no. 9 (May 2, 1947): 100-108. page number: Reproduced: p. 108 url: Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley, In England 1774-1815. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966. page number: Mentioned: pp. xxi, 281-83, 436, no. 674 url: Cummings, Frederick J., and Allen Staley. Romantic Art in Britain; Paintings and Drawings, 1760-1860. Nashville, TN: Falcon Press, 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 98, no. 48 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 184 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n208 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 198 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n218 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1991. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p.122 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 83,,p. 8, pp. 202-203, p. 295; Reproduced: p. 203 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.216/1950.216_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.216/1950.216_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.216/1950.216_full.tif