print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2006,0929.54
- Title
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Object: Romeo & Juliet
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Series: Life in Philadelphia
- Description
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Plate 12 of the series: a satirical print with a black man dressed in theatrical 17th-century dress standing looking up at a black woman on a balcony on the right. c.1832
Hand-coloured aquatint with engraved writing
- Production date
- 1832 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 227 millimetres
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Width: 189 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See John Hickman, 'The engravings of Charles and George Hunt', Norwich 2017, pp.124-8, and comment on 2001,0930.23. This plate was not copied from the American series by Clay, but was composed for the London edition by Summers. It was first issued by Isaacs and numbered 12 by him.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2006,0929.54