The Keepsake, “Alfred”

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Spread for “Alfred” poem with illustration of Alfred and his mother, from The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth, second edition, 1818. Held at Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, PN6110.C4 K26 1818.

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A boy directs his mother to look where he points out the window, while mother, sitting before the fire with her sewing, looks over her shoulder at the boy. Here the boy gives the interlocutor gesture usually made by the adult.

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    Image
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    jpg
  • file size
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  • container title
    Anonymous, The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth (London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1818).
  • credit
    Cotsen Children’s Library, Courtesy of Princeton University Library
  • rights
    public domain