Details
Title McCless 1417 Chestnut St., (above Broad), fine arts! French plate mirrors [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x 14 cm (2.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Trade card promoting fine art dealer and mirror merchant J.E. McCless and depicting a caricaturized Japanese man pointing to a sign with the advertising text. In the center, the man, wearing a chonmage hairstyle and attired in a purple kimono with white and green trim, a black jacket with gold trim, and sandals stands and points to a wooden sign with advetising text.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of operation of business advertised.
Purchased 2015.
Subject McCless, James Earle, 1821-1887.
Commercial art galleries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Japanese.
Dogs.
Men -- Japanese.
Japanese -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Japonism.
Kimonos.
Pointing fingers.
Stringed instruments.
Racialization and visual culture.
AAPI.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Berman Trade Card Collection - McCless [P.2015.56.576]
Accession number P.2015.56.576