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Your Majesty Deigns To Kill Herself

Printer L. de Benard French
Publisher Aubert et Cie French
1849–69
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Your Majesty Deigns To Kill Herself
  • Artist: Jules-Joseph-Guillaume Bourdet (French, Paris 1799–1869 Paris)
  • Printer: L. de Benard
  • Publisher: Aubert et Cie
  • Published in: Paris
  • Date: 1849–69
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (22.3 × 26.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.500.763
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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