Details
Title [African American man playing the cello] [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; sheet 12 x 9 cm (4.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American man minstrel playing the cello. Shows the African American man minstrel, attired in a white collared shirt, a striped jacket, polka-dotted pants, and shoes, sitting on a wooden stool and playing the cello. He smiles at the viewer as he picks the strings near the neck of the instrument with his left hand and runs a bow along the strings at the lower body of it with his right hand. In the background behind his head is an open book of sheet music.
Notes Title devised by cataloger.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Printed in blue ink.
Text stamped on recto: No. 478, 4 designs, price $1.55 per 1000.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Minstrels.
Music.
Racism in popular culture.
Smiling.
Violoncellos.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 2 [P.2017.95.213]
Accession number P.2017.95.213