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Contributor Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834, publisher.
Title Life in Philadelphia. "Behold thou art fair Deborah,..." [graphic].
Publisher [New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1830
Date [ca. 1830]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored lithograph; sheet 17 x 15 cm (6.25 x 6 in.)
Description Caricature satirizing the manners of Quakers and depicting a white Quaker couple, Deborah and Timothy, courting in front of a fireplace 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 cowlick at the back top of his head. He wears a brown long coat, brown 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, and looking down, 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 small dog with a curled tail sits between their feet. Also shows, in the background, wooden, straight back chairs flanking the mantelpiece of the fireplace on which two candles rest.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Plate 2 of the original series published in Philadelphia.
After the work of Edward W. Clay.
Probably published by Anthony Imbert of New York.
Contains five lines of dialogue below the image: Behold thou art fair Deborah, thou hast doves eyes! Behold thou art fair Deborah, yea pleasant! Turn away thine eyes from me, Timothy, for they overcome me; thy hair is a flock of goats that appear from Gilead!
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).
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Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Accessioned 1999.
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.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| PRINT.| Life in Philadelphia (New York Set) [P.9701.6]
Accession number P.9701.6