Maria Cosway - Works and Reproductions

Works and Reproductions

Cosway's principal works exhibited at the Royal Academy and later engraved are:

• Clytie (engraved by V. Green; engraver's name shown in parentheses below)
• The Descent from the Cross (V. Green)
• Astrea instructing Arthegal (V. Green)
• The Judgment on Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (S. W. Reynolds)
• A Persian (Emma Smith)
• H.R.H. the Princess of Wales and the Princess Charlotte by S. W. Reynolds
• The Hours by Francesco Bartolozzi
• Lodona by Francesco Bartolozzi
• The Guardian Angel, by S. Phillips
• Going to the Temple, by P. W. Tomkins
• The Birth of the Thames, by P. W. Tomkins
• Creusa appearing to Aeneas by V. Green
• The Preservation of Shadrach, Meshac, and Abednego, by W. S. Reynolds
• Louis VII, King of France, before Becket's Tomb, by W. Sharp.

Cosway drew The Progress of Female Dissipation and The Progress of Female Virtue, published in 1800. She also published a series of 12 designs, entitled The Winter's Day contributed to Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and Macklin's Poets. She etched all the plates in a large folio work entitled Gallery of the Louvre, represented by etchings executed solely by Mrs. Maria Cosway, with an Historical and Critical Description of all the Pictures which compose the Superb Collection, and a Biographical Sketch of the Life of each Painter, by J. Griffiths, &c. &c., (1802). Her numerous other plates, some in soft-ground etching, are held mostly by the British Library.