Portrait of a Woman (the artist's wife, Maria Cosway?)

Save this object

Currently not on view

Portrait of a Woman (the artist's wife, Maria Cosway?)

Richard Cosway, 1742–1821; born Devon, England; died London, England

1997-93

Information

Title

Maker

Richard Cosway

Medium

Graphite, grey wash, and slight watercolor, heightened with white

Dimensions

10.7 x 9.4 cm (4 3/16 x 3 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Surdna Fund

Object Number

1997-93

Culture

British

Type

drawings

Materials

graphite, parchment, watercolor, wash

Techniques

heightening

Subject

profiles (figures), portraits, women

Inscribed in pencil on old frame backing: 4151 Cosway mx/600. RLE; in pen: original pencil + wash drawing by Richard Cosway, R.A. Purchased by museum from F. A. den Broeder. Formerly L.1997.178.

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., pp. 205–206

IIIF manifest

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF, is an open standard for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Visit iiif.io to learn more.

Our API is generally designed to provide programmatic access to the Museum's collections data for applications that require regular updates and/or the ability to dynamically query and filter the data via the endpoints provided.

Share your feedback with us

The Museum regularly researches its objects and their collecting histories, updating its records to reflect new information. We also strive to catalogue works of art using language that is consistent with how people, subjects, artists, and cultures describe themselves. As this effort is ongoing, the Museum’s records may be incomplete or contain terms that are no longer acceptable. We welcome your feedback, questions, and additional information that you feel may be useful to us. Email us at collectionsinfo@princeton.edu.

Citation

Richard Cosway (1742–1821; born Devon, England; died London, England), Portrait of a Woman (the artist's wife, Maria Cosway?). Graphite, grey wash, and slight watercolor, heightened with white; 10.7 x 9.4 cm. Museum purchase, Surdna Fund (1997-93)
Princeton University Art Museum.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/13639

Download Image

Princeton University Art Museum supports free access to images of works in the Public Domain. You are welcome to download this image for your use.

Please select the image size you want to download.

If you are using this image for publication, we encourage you to use the following caption below. Also, If this image file is not suitable for your purposes, please refer to our Image Use and Access guidelines.

Currently not on view

Portrait of a Woman (the artist's wife, Maria Cosway?)

Information

IIIF manifest

Open API URL

Share your feedback with us

Citation

Download Image

Explore More

Celebrating American Art at Princeton

Princeton Collects

Mosaic Restaurant

Currently not on view

Portrait of a Woman (the artist's wife, Maria Cosway?)

Information

Provenance

Bibliographic Entries

Technical Metadata

IIIF manifest

Open API URL

Share your feedback with us

Explore More

Celebrating American Art at Princeton

Princeton Collects

Mosaic Restaurant