Full-length recumbent portrait of the poet in a bed next to a window., In Taggart, Cynthia. Poems. 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1834), frontispiece., Cynthia Taggart, a poet, was a chronic invalid and though she was bedridden for much of her life, she attained a degree of celebrity for her writing., “‘Now sleep spreads wide his downy wings’ p. 89. See page 13.”, Library Company’s copy marked in ink by former owner., Another portrait appears in Richmond, James C. Rhode Island cottage (New York, 1841), plate opposite p. 41.
