Details
Creator Summers, William, artist.
Contributor Hunt, Charles, engraver.
Isaacs, Harrison, publisher.
Title Life in Philadelphia. "Good evening Miss..." [graphic] / Chas. Hunt, Sc.
Publisher London: Pub. by Harrison Isaacs, Charles St. Soho Sqre
Publisher ENG. London. 1831
Date [ca. 1831]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored aquatint; sheet 30 x 22 cm (11.75 x 8.5 in.)
Description Sexist caricature satirizing middle-class mores and depicting a white man dandy sexually harassing a well-to-do white woman as she traverses a Philadelphia street. The man stands next to her, in the right, and the woman has an aghast expression. She has a bouffant hairstyle adorned with yellow flowers and ribbons. She wears a long red cape with a blue hood over her hourglass shape and large hair. The dandy is dressed in a corset, a black top hat, blue coat with tails, pink vest, yellow gloves, and large yellow bow tie. He holds a walking stick toward the ground in his right hand. A yellow handkerchief hangs out of his right coat pocket. Cityscape, a lamp post, and two men pedestrians are seen on the street in the background.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content and name of publisher.
Attributed to William Summers.
Inscribed: Plate 8.
Contains five lines of dialogue above the image: “Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of walking with you?” _ Me sir!! for whom do you take me, sir? __”Come, come that’s a good one!__ for whom do I take you? Why for myself to be sure!”__
Charles Hunt was a respected 19th-century London engraver who was most known for his aquatints of sporting subjects.
LCP copy has left side mended.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Purchase 1968.
Subject Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Relations between the sexes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sexism.
Sexual harassment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Walking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Isaacs, Harrison, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [7706.F]
Accession number 7706.F