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Contributor Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834, publisher.
Title Life in Philadelphia. "Well brudder what 'fect you tink Morgan's deduction...?" [graphic].
Publisher [New York]: [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1830
Date [ca. 1830]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored lithograph; 18 x 16 cm (7 x 6 in.)
Description Racist caricature depicting two African American masons in regalia, shaking hands, and discussing the abduction of William Morgan, a white New York mason who threatened to expose the organization's secrets. In the right, the one mason, a short, rotund man is attired in a long, blue waistcoat, black pants, a masonic apron, a red sash, yellow gloves and black slip on shoes. He holds a top hat in his left hand and shakes with his right. In the left, the other mason, a tall, thin man is attired in a long, brown waistcoat, a red cravat, brown stirrup pants over black shoes, and a masonic apron. He holds a top hat in his left hand and shakes with his right. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. Their skin tone is depicted with brown hand coloring. The men are shown standing on a patch of ground with greenery delineated by brown and green hand-coloring.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Plate 6 of the original series published in Philadelphia.
After the work of Edward W. Clay.
Probably published by Anthony Imbert.
Contains four lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect below the image: “Well brudder what ‘fect you tink Morgan’s deduction gwang to hab on our siety of free masons?” “Pon honour I tink he look radder black, fraid we lose de ‘lection in New York!”
Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era. (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 97. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O).
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Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Acquired in 1968.
Subject Morgan, William, d. 1828.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American freemasons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Conversation.
Freemasons -- New York (State)
Middle-class -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in Philadelphia (New York Set) [7770.F.4]
Accession number 7770.F.4