Title: Study for "The Ascension"
Object type: Watercolor
Date: 1774
Culture: American
Artist:  John Singleton Copley 
Artist bio: American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Ink ("Bistre") washes, pen and ink, black chalk, and graphite on off-white laid paper, watercolor
Dimensions: 15 1/4 x 20 3/8 in. (38.7 x 51.8 cm)
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960
Department: The American Wing
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Angels, term: Apostles