Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Weather cock
Weather vane

about 1772
Attributed to Thomas Drowne
Height x width: 32 x 46 in. (81.3 x 116.8 cm)
Gilt sheet copper, iron, lead, glass eyes

Classification: Metalwork

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Accession number: 2008.1401

Location: Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard

Description: Cock weathervane with metal rod and base mount

Provenance/Ownership History: First Parish Congregational Church, Newbury, Massachusetts; 2008, sold by the First Parish Congregational Church to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 17, 2008)

Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously and from Barbara L. and Theodore B. Alfond, Joyce and Edward Linde, and Barbara W. and Amos B. Hostetter, Jr., and by exchange from the Bequest of Barbara Boylston Bean, Gift of the Faulkner Hospital, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, Bequest of Samuel Abbott Green, Gift of Mrs. Alice Carpenter Ireland, Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Bybee, Gift of Amy and Richard Lipton, Gift of Nancy G. Myers and Lawrence Coolidge, Gift of the legatees under the will of Ellen T. Bullard, and Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Weller