Thinking Philosopher

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 number2019.848

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InscriptionsIn stone, on sheet adhered to card, below image: Spooner's Transformations No. 4. / The / Thinking Philosopher / A Merry-Thought / Rendered Miserable / when broughty before the light. / London: William Spooner, 377. StrandProvenanceBetween 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)