About This Artwork
James Nasmyth
Scottish, 1808-1890
Copernicus1867
Black and white chalk, graphite, touches of blue pencil, with scale in pen and brown ink, on gray wove paper with blue fibers, squared in graphite
330 x 482 mm (sight)
Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments, 2000.406
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 28.
Ownership History
University Observatory, Oxford, from before 1920-c.1960 [according to Lowell Libson, Spink-Leger Pictures].
Victor Clube, Worcestershire, to Spink-Leger Pictures, March 2000 [according to Libson]. Sold to the Art Institute, 2000.