| Contributor |
Printer Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871, publisher. |
|
Printer Childs & Inman, publisher. |
| Title |
[Road to Philadelphy] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia: Childs or Childs & Inman] |
| Date |
[1830 or 1831] |
| Extent |
1 print: lithograph; 20 x 23 cm.(7.5 x 8.75 in.) |
| Description |
Racist caricature simultaneously mocking and condoning the pretentiousness and bigotry of early 19th century Philadelphia
Quakers toward their "social inferiors." On a Philadelphia road in front of a small home with an open picket fence and a visitor
arriving on horseback, a raggedly dressed dark skinned traveler with buck teeth, possibly an Irishman or African American,
asks a rotund Quaker man and his attractive prim and proper daughter, "I say, this isn't the road to Philadelphy, honey, is
it?" The father responds indignantly to the "Friend," that he is not only asking a question, but also telling a lie, and of
course it is the road.
|
| Notes |
Attributed to E.W. Clay. |
|
Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright. |
|
Clay, born in Philadelphia, was the most prolific caricaturist of the Jacksonian era. He became well known for his popular
racist series, "Life in Philadelphia," published from 1828 until around 1830, which mocked upwardly mobile African American
Philadelphians as ineptly attempting to imitate the white middle class.
|
|
Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American Political Caricaturist of the Jacksonian Era. (PhD. diss., The University of
Michigan, 1980), p. 76, 358. (LCP Print Room, Uz A423.O)
|
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LCP holds duplicate untrimmed print: *Wainwright 315. |
| Genre |
Lithographs 1830-1840. |
|
Ethnic stereotypes 1830-1840. |
| Subject |
Society of Friends-Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Social classes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. |
|
Irish Americans-Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
African Americans-Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
African Americans-Relations with Quakers. |
| Is part of |
Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs |
| Is referenced by |
POS 652 |
|
Wainwright 315. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.4520.jpg |
| Related resource |
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W315.htm |
| Call number |
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W315 [P.2179] |
| Accession number |
P.2179 |
