Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A black ball : la pastorelle / W. Summers, del. ; C. Hunt, sc.
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03014
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8c97m360f
Publisher
Cheapside, London : Published by Tregear, at his humourous Print Shop, [183-]
Language
English
Date Created
1831-1834
Extent
1 print : aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 22.2 x 27.4 cm
Content Warning
Unspecified
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Racist caricature ridiculing the manners and dress displayed at an African American dance ball by depicting attendees making malapropisms as they flirt with one another. Contains five speech bubbles above the image.
Aquatint by Charles Hunt after drawing by William Summers, from series satirizing the perceived pretensions of Philadelphia's early 19th-century middle-class free black population. They derive from Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia," of 1828-1830
Princeton copy 1 Print trimmed to within plate mark.

Discovery Information

Subject
African Americans—Caricatures and cartoons
African Americans—Social conditions
Race relations
Social classes—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History—19th century
Courtship
Philadelphia (Pa.)—Social life and customs—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/24ddc984-b708-449c-ab4e-499eefd21e16/manifest