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Contributor Issacs, W.H., publisher.
Title Life in New York. The rivals. [graphic] / Printed by C. Ingrey, 310 Strand.
Publisher London: Pub. by W.H. Isaacs, Charles St., Soho
Publisher ENG. London. 1831
Date [ca. 1831]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored lithograph; sheet 24 x 35 cm (19.25 x 13.75 in.)
Description Racist and sexist caricature depicting two African American dandies attempting to attain a date with "Miss Dinah" who stands between them on a New York street. In the left, "Mr. Sancho", wearing light blue pantaloons, a blue waistcoat, a high neck collar, and cravat, stands with his left foot pointed, and slightly bows, He holds his top hat in his left, ungloved hand and his removed glove in his right, gloved hand. He asks “Miss Dinah” to "squeze the brupt inbitation" and go to the Battery with him. "Miss Dinah," dressed in a yellow gown with puffed sleeves and a lace collar, a wide-brimmed hat with ribbons, feathers, and a veil, as well as gloves, has her head turned to him and informs him that she has a "privyous gagement to Mr. Romio." She also holds a closed fan in her right hand. In the right, "Mr. Romio," dressed in a black top hat, white trousers, a green waistcoat, a large blue tie, and with a monocle hanging from his neck, stands slightly bowed, and responds that as he has been standing there for three hours he hopes that she will not break her "gagemen" to him. The figures are portrayed with oversize features and their skin tone is depicted in black hand coloring.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content and name of publisher.
Contains several lines of dialogue in dialect and the vernacular below the image: Shall I hab the honour of glanting you to the battery, this afternoon, Miss Dinah? Hope you’ll squeeze the brupt inbitation/O you allready squeezed, Mr. Sancho, only, I made a privyous gagement to Mr. Romio/hope you not going to break your gagemen, to me, I hab been standing here, for three hours.
Charles Ingrey was a premier London lithographic printer of the 1830s.
Shane White and Graham White's Stylin': African American Expressive Culture...(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), p. 95. (LCP Ii 4, A2880.O).
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Purchase 1968.
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons -- New York (State) -- New York.
African Americans -- Clothing & dress -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American men -- Clothing & dress -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- New York (State) -- New York.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Conversation.
Middle class -- Clothing & dress -- New York (State) -- New York.
Relations between the sexes -- New York (State) -- New York.
Racism in popular culture.
Sexism -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Issacs, W.H., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in New York (London Set) [7701.F]
Accession number 7701.F