Comic genre scene showing a male suitor "hunting" a rat loose in the bedroom of two young ladies attired in their bed clothes. The man rests on his knees and holds a shoe above the rat, which flees under a bed on which one woman, in a nightdress and on all fours, looks in fear. Another woman, in underclothes, stands on a chair near an overturned plant stand and the man while holding a plate in the air in wait for the "rat." Also shows wallpapered walls, drapery covering windows, and a framed print showing a couple in a canoe., Distributor's imprint printed on mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwoood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title printed in six different languages on verso., Gift of Jesse Randall., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date
c1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2005.19.11]
Interior views of John McAllister Jr.'s residence on West Penn Square showing bedrooms, parlors, the main staircase, and the furniture and artwork decorating the rooms and walls, including a fireplace and mantle, piano, paintings, tables, chairs, mirrors, beds, and wash basins. Several views include John McAllister, Jr., with an unidentified man in one view, sitting in chairs in a parlor., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., One item [P.9389.2] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 26., Arcadia caption text: ... This house, built around 1835 on North Merrick Street, was one of a growing number of large double townhouses that lined Penn Square by the end of the 1830s. ... The image below provides a partial view of two of the bedrooms., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [P.9389.1-9]
