Copernicus

Prints and Drawings

1867

James Nasmyth
Scottish, 1808-1890

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Nasmyth
Title: Copernicus
Place: United Kingdom (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1867
Medium: 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
Dimensions: 33 × 48.2 cm (13 × 19 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake and Harold Joachim Endowments
Reference Number: 2000.406
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art,” May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 28.

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.

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