Maria Hadfield Cosway — artist and educator
- Creator(s):
- Cosway, Maria Hadfield
- Title:
- Progress of Female Virtue: Engraved by A. Cardon from the Original Drawings by Mrs. Cosway
- Publication/Origin:
- London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1800
- Description:
- Maria Hadfield grew up in Florence, where she studied art, copying paintings at the Uffizi under Johan Zoffany. She was elected to the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno at eighteen. Influenced by Henry Fuseli and Angelica Kauffman, Cosway continued to paint after her marriage, but her husband, the miniaturist Richard Cosway, would not permit her to sell her work. A pioneer in liberal education, she established a number of girls schools in Italy. The aquatints in Progress of Female Virtue are from her drawings.
- Citation:
- Cosway, Maria Hadfield, Progress of Female Virtue: Engraved by A. Cardon from the Original Drawings by Mrs. Cosway, London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1800, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 25, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4077