Details
Contributor Ingrey, Charles, lithographer.
Issacs, W. H., publisher.
Isaacs, H., publisher.
Ingrey, Charles, lithographer.
Isaacs, H., publisher.
Isaacs, W.H., publisher.
Title Life in New York [graphic].
Publisher London: s.n
Publisher ENG. London. [1831]
Date [ca. 1831]
Physical Description 2 prints: lithographs, hand-colored; various sizes.
Description Collection of social caricatures lampooning the pretensions of early 19th century middle-class African American New Yorkers. Influenced by an increased fascination with American culture and a growing racism pending the abolition of slavery in England, the black characters are depicted in outlandish dress with exaggerated manners, and speaking in patois and malapropisms in an inept attempt to mimic white high society. The caricatures focus on courtship and the merchant of a steam press laundry.
English reprint of the Anthony Imbert series "Life in New York" originally published around 1830. Although the American series consisted of at least eight prints, the number of prints included in the London series is unknown. LCP holds two of the series. The English prints were published in London in the early 1830s by W.H. Isaacs, H. Isaacs, and G.S. Tregear.
Notes Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of Jacksonian America (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 93-97. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O).
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.
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Clothing & dress -- New York (State) -- New York.
Courtship.
Cleaning establishments -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genre Caricatures -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- Color -- 1830-1840.
Illustrator Ingrey, Charles, lithographer.
Printer Isaacs, H., publisher.
Isaacs, W.H., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Life in New York (London Set)