- Title:
Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano
- Former Title(s):
Richard and Maria Cosway
- Date:
- 1784
- Medium:
- Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 3/8 inches (32 × 39 cm), Plate: 11 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (29.2 × 36.5 cm), and Image: 8 11/16 × 11 5/8 inches (22 × 29.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, inside image, lower right: "Cosway. 1784"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12240
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arch | bird | couple | fountain | garden | genre subject | grapes | grapes | leaves | man | peacock | portrait | servant | statues | trees | vines | water | woman
- Associated People:
- Cugoano, Ottobah [John Stuart] (b. 1757?), slavery abolitionist and writer
Cosway, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector - Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:51086
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 34, 44, V 2556 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Aileen Ribeiro, The art of dress, fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820 , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1995, pp. 195, 198, pl. 207, GT736 R53 1995 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Slavery and Portraiture in 18th-century Atlantic Britain, [Website] , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2015, Available online https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/slavery-and-portraiture/ [Website]