The Woman by the Urn

1767, published 1781

Angelica Kauffmann

Associated Names
Angelica Kauffmann

Artist, Swiss, 1741 - 1807

John Boydell

Publisher, British, 1719 - 1804

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.7 × 16.5 cm (8 15/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 25.8 × 19 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.52.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Andresen 1864-1878, no. 20, State ii/ii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private Collection, France; (Nicholaas Teewisse OHG); purchased by NGA, 2025.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1864

  • Andresen, Andreas. Der deutsche Peintre-Graveur, oder die deutschen Maler als Kupferstecher nach ihrem Leben und ihren Werken. Leipzig: Verlag von Alexander Danz., 1878; vol. V, no. 20, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image at left: Angelica Kauffman fecit, London 1767; in plate, below image at right: John Boydell, excudit 1781; in plate, in margin below image: On the dark Bosom of the faithless Main, / Where stormy Winds and roaring Tempests reign, / Far from her native Fields and friendly Skies, / in early Death's Cold Arms Fidelia lies. / Ah! spare to tell (for she is now no more) / What Virtue, Beauty, Sweetness, charm'd before: / Here let the pensive Muse in silence Mourn, / Where friendship to her Name has ras'd the sacred Urn.

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