Details
Creator Summers, William, artist.
Contributor Hunt, Charles, engraver.
Isaacs, Harrison, publisher.
Title Life in Philadelphia. "Behold thou art fair Deborah,..." [graphic] / Chas. Hunt, Sc.
Publisher London: Pub. by Harrison Isaacs, Charles St. Soho Sqre
Publisher ENG. London. 1831
Date [ca. 1831]
Physical Description 1 print: hand-colored aquatint; sheet 38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 in.)
Description Caricature satirizing the manners of Quakers and depicting a white Quaker couple, Deborah and Timothy, courting in front of a fireplace with a fire in a sitting room. In the right, Timothy, depicted in left profile sits stiffly in a wooden, straight back chair with his hat in his lap. He is portrayed with full lips, a pronounced nose, and large ears and with his brown hair in a bowl cut. He wears a blue long coat, blue pants, and tied shoes. He compliments Deborah by reciting verses from the biblical love poem Song of Solomon. In the right, Deborah, portrayed facing the viewer, sits stiffly in a wooden, straight back chair with her hands in her lap. She is attired in a brown plain, long-sleeved dress, and a white kerchief over her shoulders. She also wears a white cap out of which sprays of her brown hair are visible on her forehead. Dorothy replies she is overcome by him and recites that his hair is like a flock of goats "from Gilead." A pug-like dog sits between their feet. Also shows, in the background, wooden, straight back chairs flanking the mantelpiece of the fireplace on which objet d'arts and a mirror with an ornately decorated frame is placed. Two framed works of art hang on the wall on each side of the mirror.
Notes Title from items.
Date inferred from content and name of publisher.
Attributed to William Summers.
Inscribed: Plate 11.
Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 88. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O).
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Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Purchase 1968.
Subject Chairs.
Couples -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Courtship.
Dogs.
Middle class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Recitations.
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Clothing & dress.
Women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Printer Isaacs, Harrison, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [7707.F]
Accession number 7707.F