| Contributor |
Catlin, George, 1796-1872, artist. |
|
McSpedon & Baker, printer. |
| Title |
Five Points, 1827. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York : McSpedon & Baker, lith |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1855 |
| Date |
[1855] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : tinted lithograph ; sheet 24 x 25 cm (9.25 x 13 in.) |
| Description |
Chaotic street scene after the 1827 painting Five Points by George Catlin depicting the early 19th-century New York City lower
income area east of City Hall. Shows several white and Black men and women, individually, as couples, and in groups at the
crossroads of Orange, Anthony, and Cross Streets. The streets are lined with places of "entertainment," "lodgings," and grocery
stores primarily selling liquor. Amongst the melee on the streets, a large brawl and several small fights occur, people are
knocked over, "couples" of men and women stroll and engage in conversation, peddlers sell their goods, a white woman pumps
water, and pigs roam free.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Inscribed lower right corner: For Valentine's Manual. |
|
Plate from D.T. Valentine. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York for 1855 (New York: New York Common Council,
1855) (LCP Am 1855 New Yor Com).
|
|
Original painting in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney),
from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016.
|
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Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984. |
|
RVCDC |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Biographical / historical note |
McSpedon & Baker, the New York lithographic partnership of Thomas McSpedon and Charles W. Baker, primarily performed stationery
work. Illustrative plates executed by the partnership are rare.
|
| Subject |
African American men -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
African American women -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
Carts & wagons -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
Fighting -- New York (State) -- New York. |
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Peddlers -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York. |
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Prostitution -- New York (State) -- New York. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
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Slums -- New York (State) -- New York. |
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Stores & shops -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
Swine. |
|
Women -- New York (State) -- New York. |
| Geographic subject |
Five Points (New York, N.Y.) |
| Genre |
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860. |
|
Lithographs -- Color -- 1850-1860. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Views - New York - New York City [P.9057.8] |
| Accession number |
P.9057.8 |
