Life in Philadelphia. "What you tink of my new poke bonnet...?"
Clay, Edward Williams
1799-1857
etcher
still image
Graphic
Caricatures -- 1820-1830
Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
Published by S. Hart, 65 So. 3d. St
1830
1830
monographic
eng
1 print: hand-colored etching; 21 x 18 cm (8.25 x 7 in.)
Racist caricature depicting an African American woman trying on a bonnet in the company of her African American companion, "Frederick Augustus." Depicts the woman in profile, in front of a standing mirror tilted toward her, trying on a yellow Dunstable bonnet so large that the side of her face is obscured. Her hand rests on the side of the hat adorned with a pink ribbon. Her reflection is not visible in the mirror. She wears a yellow calico dress with a white collar that covers her shoulders, black gloves, patterned stockings, and blue slipper shoes. She asks "Frederick Augustus" what he thinks. He stands behind her with his arms crossed and looks toward the mirror. He holds a walking stick under his left upper arm. A dog with a muzzle sits behind him. He responds that he does not like the style. He wears a beard and is attired in a top hat, long green overcoat with collar, red-striped pants, white gloves, and black slipper shoes. A white woman sales clerk, wearing a large top-knot hairstyle, watches the woman from behind a counter on which another Dunstable bonnet is displayed. Pink bunting is visible above the clerk’s head. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. Their skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring.
Clay.
Title from item.
Date from item.
Inscribed: Plate 14.
Inscribed: Copy right secured.
Contains seven lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect above the image: What you tink of my new poke bonnet Frederick Augustus? I don’t like him no how, case dey hide you lubly face, so you can’t tell one she nigger from anoder.
Forms part of: Life in Philadelphia.
African Americans
Caricatures and cartoons
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
African American women
Caricatures and cartoons
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
African American men
Caricatures and cartoons
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
African American women
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
African Americans
Clothing & dress
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Conversation
Middle-class
Clothing & dress
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Millinery
Racism in popular culture
Shopping
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Women clerks (Retail trade)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
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Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9701.5]
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