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Sheet of Sketches and Caricatures

French

Artwork Details

Sheet of Sketches and Caricatures
1866
French
graphite on paper (double-sided drawing)
3 3/8 in x 6 5/16 in (8.57 cm x 16.03 cm);3 7/16 in x 6 5/16 in (8.73 cm x 16.03 cm)
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2013/2.563.1-2

Description

Physical Description:

recto: studies for a group of figures (religious or allegorical) and two studies of standing women, one with child

verso: two sets of couples in caricature in contemporary dress

First side: Various people, one holding her hands below her waist, one speaking to a little boy, a group clustered together.
Second side: two fashionably dressed couples (man and woman) walking.

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