Details
Contributor Childs, J. (John) printer.
Title Three in the morning. [graphic].
Alternate Title National police gazette.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lith & pubd by Childs 63, North 2d St
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; image 43 x 32.3 cm.(17 x 12.75 in.)
Description Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote "Dan Rice's Great Show. National Theatre Walnut Street above Eighth March 13, 60 ... English Steeple Chase"; "Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre"; "Academy of Music"; and "Steam Boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin." A coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background.
Is referenced by Wainwright 472.2
Notes Date supplied by playbill depicted in image.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 4.2
American Antiquarian Society: Lithf ChilJ Thre
Copy with variant title and imprint ["3 O'clock in the Morning: 3 uhr Morgens," Childs, 152, late 84 Sth 3rd St.] held in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. AKM copy copyrighted 1857.
See Public Ledger, March 1860 for advertisements for "Dan Rice's Great Show" at the National Theatre.
Subject Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
National Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Walnut Street Theatre (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Intoxication -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Coach drivers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lampposts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Caricatures -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Location American Antiquarian Society|a American Antiquarian Society | AAS Graphic Arts Lithf ChilJ Thre