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Caritas: A mother and her three children, one at her breast
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Caritas: A mother and her three children, one at her breast
Richard Cosway (British, 1742–1821)
about 1810–15
Medium/Technique
Graphite on paper with stumping
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number2010.630
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceMaria Cosway (b. 1759 – d. 1838), the artist's wife, Lodi, (near Milan); possibly transferred to the Fondazione Maria Cosway, Lodi; June 1 – 2, 1896, posthumous Maria Cosway sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 185 (?). London art market. Commander Gerald Barnett, London. November 17, 2004, anonymous sale, Bonhams, London, Lot 71, to Trinity Fine Art, Ltd., London; 2010, sold by Trinity Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 2010)