'Beauty Too Rich' by Laura Whetter

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Artist/Maker	Ward, Lock & Co. (publisher)
Place of origin	Britain (printed)

Printed book jacket for 'Beauty Too Rich' by Laura Whetter, depicting a woman kneeling on the ground, drawing a portrait of a young child holding a toy hammer. In the background is a man in a suit, smoking a pipe in the front doorway. The back cover desrcibes the difficulty of choosing between 'domesticity or a profession'.

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Categories	Books Prints Children & Childhood
Object type	Print
Title	'Beauty Too Rich' by Laura Whetter (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Printed book jacket Paper Printing
Brief description	Book jacket for 'Beauty Too Rich' by Laura Whetter. Great Britain, 1946.
Physical description	Printed book jacket for 'Beauty Too Rich' by Laura Whetter, depicting a woman kneeling on the ground, drawing a portrait of a young child holding a toy hammer. In the background is a man in a suit, smoking a pipe in the front doorway. The back cover desrcibes the difficulty of choosing between 'domesticity or a profession'.
Dimensions	Height: 190mm Width: 290mm Approximate size
Subjects depicted	Books Covers Portraits Families Children Mothers Pipes Fathers Domestic Artists
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2235-1987

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Record created	July 2, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1266326/beauty-too-rich-by-laura-print-ward-lock/

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