 An exhibition of a number of these works was arranged some years after by Sylvester Rosa Koehler, curator of engravings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Cheney was one of the subscribers toward the establishment in 1856, under the leadership of Dr. Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, of the first women's hospital, the New England Hospital for Women and Children.A few years later, she was interested with others in the addition of a clinical department to the medical school for women in Boston, which merged in Boston University.