
Edouard de Beaumont
Bas-bleu, en train de composer un volume sur les devoirs (Blue-stocking, in the Process of Composing a Volume on the Duties of Motherhood), from the series Fariboles (Frivolities)
27 December 1848

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Artist
Edouard de Beaumont
(French, 1821–1888)
- Title Bas-bleu, en train de composer un volume sur les devoirs (Blue-stocking, in the Process of Composing a Volume on the Duties of Motherhood), from the series Fariboles (Frivolities)
- Date 27 December 1848
- Medium Lithograph
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Dimensions
sheet | 13 9/16 x 9 3/8 in.
- Credit line Gift of Eric G. Carlson in honor of Professor Elizabeth C. Childs, 2000
- Object number WU 2000.0073
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Technique
lithography
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Work type
print
caricature
Women's Work, Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship exhibition
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Humor, Irony, and Satire: Strategies of Critique in Modern Art and Culture
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/21/2010 - 07/18/2010
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