Advice to Noblemen, When Speaking to Your Fiancée’s Father Assume an Easy Posture, and Adopt a Friendly Manner
Date1903
Artist
Charles Dana Gibson
(American illustrator and painter, 1867–1944)
Illustration CitationColler’s Weekly, May 9, 1903, p.12-13.
MediumInk and graphite on board
Dimensions20 1/8 × 28 7/8 in. (51.1 × 73.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Post family, 2023
Object number2023-70
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis cartoon speaks to the Gilded Age phenomenon of wealthy Americans marrying impoverished European noblemen.
Charles Dana Gibson
c. 1896
