Rare - Margaret (Hill) Southey - 2024 Artist Working Before Letters Proof Engraved by John Henry Robinson after Robert Hancock 1850

Title: Margaret (Hill) Southey, d. 1803. Mother of Robert Southey
Engraver: John Henry Robinson English
After: Robert Hancock
Object type: Artist Before Letters Working Proof
Materials: Stipple and line 2024 engraving on paper
Date created: Published 1850

The last photograph image is from the National Galleries archive - and not for sale here and only used as an example - to show you how this artist working before letters proof would have looked once completed; - you can see the names of the artist/engraver - the title, and date is was published. This is what makes our version so much rarer - and only 'one of a kind'.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/39720/margaret-hill-southey-d-1803-mother-robert-southey

Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English writer, poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.