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The first duty of an opulent mother is to shield her child from ambitious females.
The first duty of an opulent mother is to shield her child from ambitious females.

The first duty of an opulent mother is to shield her child from ambitious females.

"Pictorial Comedy" Post Cards
Charles Dana Gibson (American, 1867–1944)
about 1906
Medium/TechniqueChromolithograph on card stock.
DimensionsHorizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineLeonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession number2017.8143
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPostcards
Provenance1950s through 2017, sold by various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States to Leonard A. Lauder, New York; 2017, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)