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The Hospice of Mount St. Bernard
The Hospice of Mount St. Bernard

The Hospice of Mount St. Bernard

William Spooner (British, active 1830s–1854)
about 1840
Medium/TechniqueLithograph with hand coloring, mounted to card and backed with hand-painted tissue
DimensionsSheet: 14 × 20.3 cm (5 1/2 × 8 in.)
Credit LineThe Richard Balzer Collection—Gift of Patricia Bellinger Balzer
Accession number2019.845
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn stone, on sheet adhered to card, below image: Spooner's Protean Views No. 18 / The Hospice of Mount St. Bernard / with the Halt of / Napoleon and his Army on Crossing the Alps / Which latter is seen on holding the Print before a strong light / London, W. Spooner 377 Strand.ProvenanceBetween about 1970 and 2017, acquired by Richard Balzer (b. 1944 - d. 2017), Brookline, MA; by inheritance to Patricia Bellinger; 2019, gift of Patricia Bellinger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)
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