Illustrated Poem and Silk Needlework on PaperNew England, c. 1790-1800.
Depicting a man in black coat presenting a bouquet of flowers to a lady in a blue dress. The quotation is from "The Looking-Glass for the Mind: or, Intellectual Mirrors" from "The Birds, The Thorn-Bushes, and the Sheep" by Arnaud Berquin.
Arnaud Berquin (1747- 1791) was a French children 's author. His most famous work was L 'Ami des Enfants (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerized, by Mary Stockdale, and published in London in 1783-1784 by Mary's father John Stockdale. The work remained popular until the middle of the nineteenth century. Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives-they did not contain fairy tales or other imaginative literature. His books envisioned childhood reading as a familial exercise: for example, some of his “stories" are actual plays with parts for every member of the family. Berquin's books helped solidify the creation of the nuclear family, for “if Berquin's work has a theme, it is that parents and children live in a perfect symbiosis, the parents looking after their children's interests and the children, if behaving properly, filling their parents with joy.â€
Provenance: John Gordon at the New York Winter Antiques Show, 1980
Sight: 8 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (22.2 x 18.4 cm.), Frame: 12 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (31.1 x 28.6 cm.)
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