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Life in Philadelphia. "How you like de new fashion shirt...?" [graphic] / Chas. Hunt, Sc.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A60268
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Creator
Summers, William artist.
Contributor
Hunt, Charles engraver.
Hunt, Charles, engraver.
T.C. Lewis & Co., publisher.
Title
Life in Philadelphia. "How you like de new fashion shirt...?" [graphic] / Chas. Hunt, Sc.
Publisher
London: Pub. by Lewis & Co. 79 Leadenhall St
Publisher
ENG. London. 1860
Date
[ca. 1860]
Physical Description
1 print: aquatint; sheet 38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 in.)
Description
Racist caricature ridiculing the 1829 male fashion fad of striped shirts depicting a well-dressed African American couple discussing the "new fashion shirt" that he is wearing, seen from under his large yellow tie. "Miss Florinda," who wears a purple headpiece, and a low-cut rose colored dress, holds her fan coquettishly near her face and states that she finds the fashion elegant and how his wearing it within the "Abolition siety" will make him look like "Pluto de God of War!" Contains five lines of dialogue above the image.
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content and name of publisher.
After the work of Edward W. Clay.
Attributed to William Summers.
Plate 9 of the original series published in Philadelphia.
Contains seven lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: How you like de new fashion shirt, Miss Florinda? I tink dey mighty elegum_ I see you on New year day when you carry de colour in de Abolition ‘siety -You look just like Pluto de God of War!
LCP exhibit catalogue, Made in America p.29.
Nancy Reynolds Davison. E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist in Jacksonian America. (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p.88-89.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Conversation.
Fads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Middle-class -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Caricatures -- 1860-1870.
Aquatints -- 1860-1870.
Illustrator
Hunt, Charles, engraver.
Printer
T.C. Lewis & Co., publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [P.9715]
Accession number
P.9715
In Collections
Life in Philadelphia Collection
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1801-1865
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
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