Richard and Maria Cosway
Not on view
One of only two etchings by Richard Cosway, this double portrait of the artist and his wife Maria echoes Rubens's famous self-portrait with Isabella Brandt. Likely made when the Cosways moved into Schomberg House in 1784 (a residence that overlooks London's Green Park), the image includes their servant Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (also known as John Steurat), a member of the "Sons of Africa" who published an anti-slavery book in 1787 titled "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Human Species."
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