Details
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