Life in Philadelphia: Romeo & Juliet

by HUNT, C[harles].

$600 · Offered by Between the Covers

London: Pub. by W.H. Isaacs, Charles St. Soho, [circa 1830]. Unbound. Hand-colored aquatint etching. Measuring 6¾" x 8½" (22 x 17.5cm). Margins slightly and a bit irregularly trimmed, slight soiling at the extremities, but a bright, near fine example of this racist cartoon satirizing middle-class African-Americans in Philadelphia. The balcony..... More

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