Details
Creator Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist.
Contributor Childs, J. publisher.
Title Practical amalgamation. [graphic] / ENC.
Publisher New York : Published and sold by John Childs, 119, Fulton Street, upstairs
Publisher NY. New York. 1839
Date 1839
Physical Description 1 print : colored lithograph ; sheet 24 x 32 cm (9 x 12 in.)
Description Racist print promoting anti-abolitionists' fears of multiracial personal relationships. Depicts a parlor scene where two interracial couples court on a couch. In the left, an attractive white women sits on the lap of an African American man. The man, depicted in racist caricature with grotesque facial features, holds a guitar in his right hand as she engages him in a kiss. In the right, a rotund African American woman holds a fan in her right hand as she is wooed by a slender white man on his knees who kisses her left hand. Portraits of abolitionists Arthur Tappan, Daniel O'Connell (a radical Irish abolitionist), and John Quincy Adams are hung on the wall behind the couch. A white and black dog are in the left corner.
Notes Title from item.
First of a series of five.
Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2015, p. 41.
Purchase 1957.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Clay, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, engraver, and lithographer who created the "Life in Philadelphia" series which satirized middle-class African-Americans of the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Subject Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Portraits.
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 -- Portraits.
Tappan, Arthur, 1786-1865 -- Portraits.
Abolitionists -- United States.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Couples -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship.
Dogs.
Kissing.
Miscegenation.
Race relations.
Racism in popular culture.
Women -- United States.
Multiracial personal relationship.
Genre Anti-abolition prints -- United States.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840.
Printer Childs, J. (John), publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1839-Pra 1 [6207.F]
Accession number 6207.F