Research Catalog

Title

A black ball [graphic] / W. Summers, del. ; C. Hunt sc.

Author

Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857.

Publication

[183-?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Summers, W. (William), 1816-1880.

Description

1 print : etching, aquatint, hand-colored; 20 x 26 cm.

Summary

Cartoon satirizing middle-class African-Americans in Philadelphia. Set at a ball, it depicts two elegantly dressed women and a man at left, who comment on a second man, at right, who dances alone. Undaunted, he and a third man at far right contribute their own remarks.

Alternative Title

Life in Philadelphia

Subjects

• Prints
• Cartoons (Commentary)
• Ballroom dancing > United States > 19th century
• African Americans > Caricatures and cartoons
• Dance > Caricatures and cartoons
• Ballroom dancing > Caricatures and cartoons

Genre/Form

• Cartoons (Commentary)
• Prints.

Note

• Caption title.
• Series caption title: Life in Philadelphia.
• Leaf from a book. On the verso is the poem The British tri-color, with a b&w illustration, below which is printed: Pubd. by W.H. Isaacs, [London].

Biography (note)

• This print may have been originally published as part of E.W. Clay's Life in Philadelphia series, first published in 1828-1830.

Call Number

*MGZFD Hun C Bla 1

OCLC

792748851

Author

Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857. Attributed name

Title

A black ball [graphic] / W. Summers, del. ; C. Hunt sc.

Imprint

[183-?]

Biography

This print may have been originally published as part of E.W. Clay's Life in Philadelphia series, first published in 1828-1830.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Summers, W. (William), 1816-1880. Artist

Added Title

Life in Philadelphia

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Hun C Bla 1