Collection Of 46 Pen-and-Ink Caricatures, Mid-19th Century, From New England Probably -
Collection of 46 Pen-and-Ink Caricatures, Mid-19th Century, from New England probably
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
Custom clamshell cloth box, with leather spine title label. Good. N.d., circa 1870. Caricatures on heavy card stock, 29 by 13.5 cm. Each card contains a single person caricatured. The caricatures are evocative of the type one finds on Vinegar or Poison Valentines of the day, and a few might bring to mind caricatures in Puck and the handiwork of Thomas Nast. The caricatures have a deliberate crudity to them. Among subjects lampooned are suffragettes, the Catholic clergy, various low life, teetotalers and drinkers, and perhaps anyone in sight. We say this is from New England probably because one of the caricatures contains a depiction of an advertisement of a Providence, Rhode Island clothing store. Condition: original binding now disbound, with outer boards remaining, but a modern clamshell box serving to keep things tidy. The cards generally have small corner chips as a result of the brittleness of the card, and there is lots of shavings from the card in this box. The artwork, though, is not affected excepting minor loss to a few captions.
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Bookseller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Format/Binding Custom clamshell cloth box, with leather spine title label
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover