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Life in Philadelphia. "Behold thou art fair Deborah,..." [graphic] / Chas. Hunt, Sc.
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Creator
Summers, William, artist.
Contributor
Hunt, Charles, engraver.
Isaacs, Harrison, publisher.
Title
Life in Philadelphia. "Behold thou art fair Deborah,..." [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 38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 in.)
Description
Caricature satirizing the manners of Quakers and depicting a white Quaker couple, Deborah and Timothy, courting in front of a fireplace with a fire in a sitting room. In the right, Timothy, depicted in left profile sits stiffly in a wooden, straight back chair with his hat in his lap. He is portrayed with full lips, a pronounced nose, and large ears and with his brown hair in a bowl cut. He wears a blue long coat, blue pants, and tied shoes. He compliments Deborah by reciting verses from the biblical love poem Song of Solomon. In the right, Deborah, portrayed facing the viewer, sits stiffly in a wooden, straight back chair with her hands in her lap. She is attired in a brown plain, long-sleeved dress, and a white kerchief over her shoulders. She also wears a white cap out of which sprays of her brown hair are visible on her forehead. Dorothy replies she is overcome by him and recites that his hair is like a flock of goats "from Gilead." A pug-like dog sits between their feet. Also shows, in the background, wooden, straight back chairs flanking the mantelpiece of the fireplace on which objet d'arts and a mirror with an ornately decorated frame is placed. Twom framed works of art hang on the wall on each side of the mirror.
Notes
Title from items.
Date inferred from content and name of publisher.
Inscribed: Plate 11.
Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 88. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O).
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Purchase 1968.
Subject
Chairs.
Couples -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Courtship.
Dogs.
Middle class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Recitations.
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Clothing & dress.
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) [7707.F]
Accession number
7707.F
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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