Details
Title Columbia trading with all the world. [graphic].
Publisher [United States?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1789-1800
Date [ca. 1789-ca. 1800]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; image 18 x 11 cm (7 x 4.25 in.)
Description Allegorical print depicting "Columbia" (i.e., the United States) as a white woman with brown hair, on the deck of a ship. She holds a caduceus and disperses treasures from a horn of plenty held by "Wisdom," who is portrayed as a white woman attired in a helmet, armor, a skirt, and sandals. Wisdom holds a spear in her left hand and gives the treasures to three male figures representing the country's international trade partners. Figures depicted are: Africa as a Black man attired in a headpiece shaped like an elephant's head and leaning on a tusk of ivory; Asia as a bearded man with a light-brown color skin tone attired in a turban; and South America as a man in a feathered headpiece carrying a bow.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Possibly published in London and not the United States.
Revised state. Previous title and imprint faintly visible and illegible below image.
Gift of Dr. Mary DeWitt Pettit, 1965.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Allegories.
Asians.
Black people.
Columbia (Symbolic character)
Ethnic stereotypes.
Men, Black.
South Americans.
Wisdom.
Black men.
AAPI.
Geographic subject United States -- Commerce -- Africa.
United States -- Commerce -- Asia.
United States -- Commerce -- South America.
Genre Engravings -- 1780-1800.
Allegorical prints -- 1780-1800.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Allegories [7737.F]
Accession number 7737.F