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

Collections

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)