Inscribed, in plate, lower left: PAINTED BY J.M.W. TURNER, R.A. Inscribed, lower center: ANCIENT CARTHAGE | THE EMBARKATION OF REGULUS | To the Right Honourable John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor | of Great Britain, & c. & c. | This Plate is by Permission most gratefully Inscribed | by his Lordship's very obedient humble Servant, Thomas Boys, Inscribed, bottom left edge: LONDON, REPUBLISHED FEBY. 15, 1853, BY THOMAS BOYS, (OF THE LATE FIRM OF MOON, BOYS & GRAVES.) PRINTSELLER TO THE ROYAL FAMILY; 467, OXFORD STREET; - PARIS, E. CAMBART & CO. 15, RUE CHARLOT, - DEPOSE, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JANY. 1, 1842.

(Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein)

1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Daniel Wilson; after Joseph Mallord William Turner, Ancient Carthage, ca. 1842, engraving and etching in ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.202.