Details
Contributor Camp, John Henry, 1822-1881, printer.
Title Philadelphia Carnival. Easter Monday Night April 18th 1881 at the Academy of Music [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : J.H. Camp, litho
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1881
Date [1881]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; sheet 10 x 16 cm (3.5 x 6.25 in.)
Description Ticket depicting a festive scene for the Philadelphia Carnival Bal Masque organized by the Maennechor Society, the city's German singing society. Scene depicts a man masquerading as a jester in a red costume breaking out of an egg-shaped prop (adorned with the date and location of the event) that lies on the back of a man costumed as a clown. The clown is attired in a white ensemble and is prone, lying on his stomach, and propped up by his hands. The clown wears a pointed hat, ruffled collar, wide-sleeved shirt, and blue-striped pants. Another jester, attired in a red head dress, blue shirt, and tan leggings, stands and watches to the left of the cracking egg from which his fellow jester propels himself. Above the standing jester, a putti pulls up a green drape with gold trim. In the right, in front of the clown and jester in red, a man with long blonde hair and costumed in colonial-era attire bows. He holds a tri-corn hat in his hand and wears a dark-brown coat, blue pantaloons, red shoes, and a flowing gold cape. In the right background, stands a group of male and female spectators costumed as a renaissance man, scullery maid, bald-headed clown, wizard, knight, and Quaker couple. The Maennerchor Society's Carnival Bal Masque began about 1864 and continued throughout at least the 1890s. The Carnival was usually a charity event and included masquerade, music, singing, dancing, and tableaux.
Notes Title and date from item.
Contains gilt border.
Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto Fund 2015).
Subject Männerchor (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social aspects.
Clowns.
Costumes.
Fools & jesters.
German Americans -- Organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Masquerades -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Puttis.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Tickets -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| ephemera - Tickets - P [P.2017.92.1]
Accession number P.2017.92.1