"Make haste, come children; the soup is smoking on the table; Granny is rising from her spinning wheel; Father is shouting for you! Quick! Quick!" (from "Vesper," in "Good Words for 1862," p. 9)
After John Dawson Watson British
Engraver Dalziel Brothers British
Related author Valérie Boissier, comtesse de Gasparin Swiss
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This wood engraving centers on a mother serving dinner to her family and illustrates "Vesper," a poem written the Countess de Gasparin. Born in Geneva, the countess addressed subjects ranging from religion to social issues such as freedom, equality and artistic expression and was read widely in Britain and the United States.
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