The Death of Major Peirson (1757-1781) | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1782–84

Not on view

Medium: Oil on canvas (grisaille)
Dimensions: 27 1/4 × 35 1/4 in. (69.2 × 89.5 cm)
Credit Line: Lelia A. and John Hill Morgan, B.A. 1893, LL.B. 1896, M.A. (Hon.) 1929, Collection
Accession Number: 1943.67
Geography: Made in London, England, United Kingdom
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Paintings
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Bibliography

Louise Downie and Doug Ford, 1781: The Battle of Jersey and the Death of Major Peirson (London: Jersey Heritage Trust, 2012), 47, ill

Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley: In America, 1738–1774 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966), 275, 287, 289, 296, 298, 302–6, 308–9, 311–13, 316–18, 321, 329n, 336–38, 342, 344–46, 356–57, 359, fig. 442

Charles Crehore Cunningham, John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1938), 22, fig. 28

Theodore Bolton and Harry Lorin Binsse, "John Singleton Copley," Antiquarian (December 1930), 76

Frank W. Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley (Boston: Taylor Press, 1915), 35

Augustus Thorndike Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley (Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson and Son, 1873), 132

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