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At 18, Beaux was appointed drawing teacher at Miss Sanford's School, taking over Drinker's post.

She also gave private art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits.

Her own studies were mostly self-directed.

Beaux received her first introduction to lithography doing copy work for Philadelphia printer Thomas Sinclair and she published her first work in St. Nicholas magazine in December 1873.

Beaux demonstrated accuracy and patience as a scientific illustrator, creating drawings of fossils for Edward Drinker Cope, for a multi-volume report sponsored by the U. S. Geological Survey.

However, she did not find technical illustration suitable for a career ( the extreme exactitude required gave her pains in the " solar plexus ").

At this stage, she did not yet consider herself an artist.