Details
Title Laque de Chine [graphic] / J.M.
Publisher [France] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet x cm ( x in.)
Description Trade card promoting druggist John H. Sheehan & Co. and depicting a scene of two Chinese men painting. In the left, show the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue cap, blue robe, and blue, slip-on shoes. He sits on a bench in front of an easel and paints. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a green, patterned robe, stands and lacquers a vase. Also in the room are a red lantern, screen, and side table with a blue jar. In the background is a river with boats and a pagoda on the shoreline.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text printed on verso: John H. Sheehan, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Pefumery and Toilett (sic) Articles, 167 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
RVCDC
See related: P.9828.6766.
Subject John H. Sheehan & Co. (Utica, N.Y.)
Chinese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Chinoiserie (Art)
Ethnic stereotypes.
Men -- Chinese.
Orientalism.
Paintings.
Pharmacists -- New York (State) -- Utica.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- Utica.
Racism in popular culture.
Queue (Hairstyle)
AAPI.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Racist caricatures.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Sheehan [P.9828.6777]
Accession number P.9828.6777