Title: Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1782–83
Culture: American
Artist:  John Singleton Copley 
Artist bio: American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black chalk on light blue laid paper
Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 23 in. (36 x 58.4 cm)
Credit line: Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1960
Department: The American Wing
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men