Details
Contributor Childs, J. (John) printer.
Title 3' o'clock in the morning. [graphic] : 3 uhr morgens. / J.A. [?]
Alternate Title National police gazette.
Publisher Philadelphia : Pub'd by J. Childs 152, late 84 Sth 3rd St
Date c1857
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 48 x 36 cm. (19 x 14 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 the National Police Gazette, Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, John Drew's National Theatre, the Academy of Music, and steam boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin. An African American coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background.
Is referenced by Wainwright 472.1
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 4
Atwater Kent Museum: 54.8.1
Copy with variant title and imprint ["Three in the Morning," Childs, 63 North 2nd St.] held in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. AAS copy dated ca. 1863, probably 1860.
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.
African American men.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Caricatures -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Location Atwater Kent Museum | AKM 54.8.1