File:1829-philadelphia-black-bourgeoisie-flesh-coloured.jpg
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[edit]Edward Williams Clay: "Life in Philadelphia" ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q15532610 Published by W. Simpson |
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Title |
"Life in Philadelphia" |
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Date |
Published May 1829. |
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Medium | color etching print | |||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
[Meaning: "Yes ma'am, here is a pair which is of the highest quality."] Monogram bottom right: C
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Notes |
A caricature showing an African-American woman shopping while dressed in the very latest of high fashions; her similarly-attired friend waits in the doorway for her to finish her purchase. As caricaturists often did, the size of the woman's hat is exaggerated, and the skirts are shown a little shorter than they would have been in real life (see Image:Waist-and-Extravagance-ca-1830-fashion-satire-Heath.jpg for another typical example of these standard caricaturists' tricks from the same period). Much of the humor which white Americans of 1829 would have perceived in this caricature would have arisen from the racist preconceptions which they held. Many white Americans would have found the very idea of a "black bourgeoisie" (as it was later called), or Black attempts to imitate White high-society, to be inherently ridiculous. |
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Source/Photographer |
Edited from the image http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g02000/3g02400/3g02441u.tif at the Library of Congress website CALL NUMBER: PGA - Clay, Edward W.--Life in Philadelphia (A size) [P&P] |
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- 1829 cartoons
- Female fashion in the 1820s
- Females with green dresses in art
- Females with green hats in art
- Caricatures of fashion
- African Americans in 19th-century art
- May 1829 in the United States
- 1829 in Philadelphia
- Philadelphia in art
- Shopping in art
- Edward Williams Clay
- 1820s dresses
- African American history of the 1820s
- African Americans in Philadelphia
- Life in Philadelphia