Details
Creator Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist.
Contributor Childs & Inman, printer.
Title Skating. Scene on the River Delaware at Philadelphia. Febry. 12th 1831. [graphic] / Clay fecit.
Publisher Philadelphia: Childs & Inman lithog
Date [1831]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 21 x 27 cm.(8 x 10.5 in.)
Description Amusing winter genre scene showing several individuals enjoying the frozen river as a place for recreation, travel, and as a place of observation for the February 12, 1831 solar eclipse. In the foreground, several ice skaters, predominately men, skate, perform tricks, and fall. One of the fallen includes an African American man, lying on his back, his hat on the ice near a dog playing with a ball. In the right of the image, a vendor serves beverages from a refreshment stand. In the background, several others skate, ride and pull sleds, or enjoy a horse-drawn sleigh ride.
Is referenced by Wainwright 336
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 696
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 07 S 17
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America, entry #44
Smithsonian, Harry T. Peters Collection: DL*60.3655. Copy hand-colored.
Trimmed.
Subject Ice skating -- Pennsylvania. -- Philadelphia.
Winter -- Pennsylvania. -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania. -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Genre prints -- 1830-1840.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 07 S 17