Art, literature & history
Drapery Study for "Mary and Elizabeth Royall"
c. 1758
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite and white chalk on gray-brown laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall (approximate): 25.2 x 38.1 cm (9 15/16 x 15 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1980.4.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Singleton Copley. Drapery Study for "Mary and Elizabeth Royall". John Singleton Copley; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singleton_Copley,_Drapery_Study_for_%22Mary_and_Elizabeth_Royall%22,_c._1758,_NGA_57508.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Drapery Study for "Mary and Elizabeth Royall" — John Singleton Copley. c. 1758.
Medium: graphite and white chalk on gray-brown laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (approximate): 25.2 x 38.1 cm (9 15/16 x 15 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1980.4.1. John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund and Avalon Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.