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Contributor Smith, Xanthus, 1839-1929, former owner.
Title Ladies... [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photograph : transparency on glass, hand colored with wood mount ; mount 18 x 10 cm (7 x 3.75 in.) (lantern slide format)
Description Lantern slide formerly owned and probably used in art lessons by Philadelphia painter, photographer, and art teacher, Xanthus Smith. Depicts a scene set in Roman antiquity of a white woman, attired in a white gown, dancing before upper-class Romans. In the center is a marble veranda with a roof comprised of a red drape with yellow fringe held up by columns. In the veranda, around a table filled with food and drink, a Roman woman and three men lounge and watch the dancer. Behind them, three enslaved Black men and a woman carry wine flasks, pour drinks, and fan. In the left, white men and women musicians play flutes and tambourines. In the background, a peacock and other birds stand and fly on the palatial building decorated with columns, sculpture, and flowers.
Notes Title from partially legible label on mount.
Number 19 in "Old Roman World" series.
Gift of Edna Andrade, 1994.
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Classical antiquities.
Dance.
Eating & drinking.
Men, Black.
Musicians.
Racism in popular culture.
Romans.
Slaves.
Women, Black.
Black men.
Black women.
Enslaved labor.
Enslaved men.
Enslaved women.
Enslavement.
Genre Lantern slides -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Smith, Xanthus, 1839-1929, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Lantern Slides - Smith [P.9471]
Accession number P.9471