The Mother’s Dream

This Currier and Ives print is the likely source image for Nicola Marschall's angel in The Hale Child.

The Mother's Dream, 1853

Williams and Stevens

Currier &Ives

Ink on paper

The Mother's Dream, a Currier and Ives print showing a woman seated, asleep, beside an infant who has presumably died. Hovering above is an angel, shown carrying the infant away. The expressions of both woman and infant are peaceful.

Courtesy of the First White House of the Confederacy

Appears In

Nicola Marschall

Nicola Marschall

The Mother's Dream, a Currier and Ives print showing a woman seated, asleep, beside an infant who has presumably died. Hovering above is an angel, shown carrying the infant away. The expressions of both woman and infant are peaceful.