Mrs Cosway, Schomberg House, 80-82 Pall Mall, London, UK (colour engraving)

Schomberg House, 80-82 Pall Mall, London. An engraving showing the view from Mr Cosway's Breakfast-Room at Schomberg House, looking towards Westminster Abbey, with Mrs Cosway seated in the foreground. Richard Cosway (1742-1821) was a leading portrait painter, his wife Maria Cosway (1760-1838) was also an accomplished artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. A note beneath the engraving records that the landscape was painted by William Hodges, RA, and the portrait was painted by Rd. Cosway. The whole was engraved by W. Birch, 1789. Coloured engraving from the Mayson Beeton Collection.