My Mother. [&] My Father. by M. Belson.
London, Published July 22.d 1811 [& February 17th 1812] by William Darton Jun.r 58 Holborn Hill.
Pair of coloured etchings. Each sheet c. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed, splits in centre folds, laid on album paper as issued, 'Father' with repaired tears.
Two plates with six images illustrating two odes to perfect parents by women writers. 'My Mother', a poem written by Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782–1866, daughter of the engraver Isaac Taylor), earned a parody by Lord Byron. 'My Father' was written by Mary Belson, a prolific writer of children's books who wrote under her married name of Elliott after 1819.
[Ref: 58499] £280.00
Pair of coloured etchings. Each sheet c. 240 x 395mm (9½ x 15½). Trimmed, splits in centre folds, laid on album paper as issued, 'Father' with repaired tears.
Two plates with six images illustrating two odes to perfect parents by women writers. 'My Mother', a poem written by Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782–1866, daughter of the engraver Isaac Taylor), earned a parody by Lord Byron. 'My Father' was written by Mary Belson, a prolific writer of children's books who wrote under her married name of Elliott after 1819.
[Ref: 58499] £280.00