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John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815, American, active in Britain (from 1776), Study for 'The Red Cross Knight', ca. 1793
- Title:
Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'
- Former Title(s):
Portraits, in the characters of the Red Cross knight, Fidelia and Speranza; vide Spencer's "Fairy Queen," B. i, C 10. [1793, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1793
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.161
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.161FR
- Subject Terms:
- armor | chalice | feather | goblet | helmets | knight (landholder) | lamp | light | literary theme | plume | shield | snake | spear | study (visual work) | white | woman | women
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:672
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 68-69, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 194 (v.1), no. 373, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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