Comerford after Romney pinx.t Caroline Watson Engraver to her Majesty sculp.t
Published as the act directs May 10. 1811, by Longman & Co: Paternoster Row.
Stipple. 292 x 217mm. 11½ x 8½".
Mary Tighe (1772-1810) was an Anglo-Irish poet. In 1805 she published 'Psyche', a six-canto allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas, which was admired by many and praised by Thomas Moore. She suffered a serious attack of tuberculosis in 1805 and survived another five years.
Ex Collection: Earl of Bute.
[Ref: 24360]  £75.00