| Creator |
Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865. |
| Title |
[Scraps for the year 1830] [graphic] / Designed etched & published by D.C. Johnston. |
| Publisher |
Boston : D.C. Johnston [48 Milk St,] |
| Publisher |
MASS. Boston. 1830 |
| Date |
[1830] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : etching ; sheet 62 x 74 cm (24.5 x 29.5 in.) |
| Description |
Plate three from the 1830 edition of "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between
1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary society titled: Practitioners of the
Bar Lamenting the Failure of the United States Mint; Putting the Best Leg Foremost; Fixed Air; Erudition; A Discharge of Filth;
Improvement in Bathing; Conjugal Affection; Making Up a Party of Pleasure; and Hot Corn. Scenes depict: white men commodities
brokers bemoaning the "winter" market at a tavern; white women shoppers lamenting a lost butter firkin and questioning the
quality of a leg of meat including an African American man carrying a basket of food; two white men in a bed chamber with
a closed window discussing the unhealthiness of "fixed air"; a white man quibbling over the omission of the word "physician"
in the dictionary; the chastisement of a Boston drunkard near his overturned cart pulled by his drunk "haus"; a white man
shower-bathing with an umbrella; the fattening of a dying white man to be purchased as a cadaver ; a working class, white
Boston family reminding a destitute woman of the pleasure in witnessing a hanging; and a discussion of the processing of "hot
corn" between a African American waiter and two white men patrons. Includes two African American characters, a servant and
a waiter, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular.
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| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Inscribed upper right corner: Pl 3. |
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Published in D. C. Johnston's Scraps for the year 1830 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1830), pl. 3. (LCP Am 1830 Joh, 7021.F.3). |
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
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Accessioned 1979. |
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RVCDC |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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| Subject |
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Executions -- United States. |
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Intoxication. |
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Markets -- United States. |
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Medicine, Popular. |
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Poverty -- United States. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Servants -- United States. |
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Sick persons. |
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Stockbrokers -- United States. |
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Waiters -- United States. |
| Genre |
Etchings -- 1830-1840. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1830-1840. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - [1830]-Scr [P.2275.25] |
| Accession number |
P.2275.25 |
|
p-2275-25 |
