Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
An Italian Family
1785
Samuel Alken
After Thomas Rowlandson
Sheet: 42 x 53.5 cm (16 9/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
Etching and aquatint with hand coloring (including mount), outer lines of mount ruled by hand
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2012.275
Provenance/Ownership History: 2002, sold by Andrew Edmonds, London to R. M. Light and Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA; 2012, sold by R.M. Light to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 30, 2012)
Eleanor A. Sayre Fund