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- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 1st, 1833.
- Call Number:
- 833.01.01.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Letter "J" in "C.J. Grant" etched backwards., and Publisher's advertisement below title: See Tregear's Catalogue of humours.
- Publisher:
- Published by G.S. Tregear, 123, Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The union [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
- Published / Created:
- August 20th, 1833.
- Call Number:
- 833.08.20.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- At Vauxhall Gardens, the Master of Ceremonies, C.H. Simpson greets a man in uniform as fashionable visitors look on. Projected in the background is a view of his colossal likeness, in variegated lamps, taken in the Gardens on the 19th of August (the night of his benefit).
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Three lines of text below title: To. C.H. Simpson, Esqr. M.C. of the Royal Gardens Vauxhall ... on the night of his benefit ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 1s. 6d. Plain. 2s. 6d cold.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed with loss of plate mark: sheet 25.3 x 18 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published by W. Kidd, 14 Chandos Stt. West Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Simpson, Christopher Herbert, 1770-1835, and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Masters of ceremonies and Entertainers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > C.H. Simpson, Esqr. M.C.R.G.V for upwards of 36 years with a distant view of his colossal likeness in variegated lamps / [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1833]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.35
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a series of British social caricatures lampooning the pretensions of early 19th-century middle-class Philadelphians, mainly the city's growing community of free African Americans. Influenced by an increasing fascination with American culture and a growing racism stemming from the abolition of slavery in England, the African American characters are depicted with grotesque features and manners, wearing outlandish clothes, and speaking in patois and malapropisms to be portrayed as ineptly attempting to mimic white high society. In this print the artist mocks African American vanity and the desire to look white: a well-dressed African American woman purchasing shoes at "Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer." The belle, portrayed with mannish features, wears a yellow bonnet with a white veil that frames her face like long straight hair. Seated, she slightly lifts her red dress to inspect the black shoe that the African American sales clerk has just placed on her large foot. She believes the shoe "is sich a bery dirty color" and does he not have any white or pink ones. The kneeling sales clerk attempts to persuade her that it may not be "handsome" to look at, but surely a "good color to wear." Another clerk with a row of boots behind him is seen in the background performing as a store sign states, the "Best Jet Blacking Sold Here." On the left, an African American couple is seen walking passed the store
- Alternative Title:
- New shoes
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. Series title appears at top of image., Prints based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
- Subject (Topic):
- African Americans, African American women, Afro-Americans, Clothing & dress, and Shoe stores
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The new shoes [graphic]