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Contributor Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834, publisher.
Title Life in Philadelphia. "How you find yourself dis hot weader Miss Chloe?" [graphic].
Publisher [New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1830
Date [ca. 1830]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored lithograph; 21 x 16 cm (8 x 6 in.)
Description Racist caricature mocking the ambitions of free Blacks depicting, "Mr. Cesar," an African American dandy asking an African American belle how she finds herself in "dis hot weader?" "Miss Chloe," responds that she is doing well, but "aspires too much!" In the left, the man stands and faces the woman, in the right, and whose back is to the viewer. The man is attired in a blue waistcoat with a black collar, a white vest, pink cravat, white pants, gloves, and black slipper shoes. He holds a walking stick perpendicular to the ground in his right hand. The woman is attired in a yellow, puff-sleeved, ankle-length dress and with a pink neckerchief, wide-brimmed yellow hat with a long veil and adorned with several pink flowers and blue ribbon, gloves, and white slipper shoes. She also wears a necklace and earrings. She holds a purse and fan in her left hand and a parasol in her right hand. The man and woman stand on a grassy knoll. The figures are portrayed with oversized and exaggerated features. Their skin tone is depicted with black hand coloring.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Inscribed: P. 4.
After the work of Edward W. Clay.
Probably published by Anthony Imbert.
Contains three lines of dialogue in the vernacular and dialect below the image: “How you find yourself dis hot weader Miss Chloe?” “Pretty well I tank you Mr. Cesar only I aspire too much!”
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Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Acquired in 1968.
Subject 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.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 5-1834, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in Philadelphia (New York Set) [7770.F.1]
Accession number 7770.F.1