Details
Contributor Ingrey, Charles, lithographer.
Isaacs, W.H., publisher.
Title Life in Philadelphia. The cut direct. or getting up in the world. [graphic] / Printed by C. Ingrey, 310 Strand.
Publisher London: Pub. by W.H. Isaacs, Charles St. Soho
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1832
Date [ca. 1832]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 21 x 24 cm.(7.75 x 9.5 in.)
Description Racist caricature portraying nouveau riche African Americans as prejudiced against lower class African Americans. Depicts an African American bootblack greeting an elegantly dressed African American couple who feign ignorance of the man's acquaintance after their return from New York. The raggedly dressed bootblack, while holding his rod of boots in one hand, uses his other hand to grab the hand of "Casar." "Casar" dressed in a hat and overcoat looks suspiciously at their joined hands. He states that the bootblack has mistaken his identity as his wife, dressed in a large bonnet with feathers and a veil and a dark overcoat, confirms the mistake and adds, "we are Guinea People, you Imperdent Nigger."
Notes Charles Ingrey was one of the premier London lithographic printers of the 1830s.
Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of Jacksonian America (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 80-81. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American shoe shiners.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Isaacs, W.H., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in Philadelphia (London Set) (P.9718a)
Accession number P.9718a