Market Scene
Market Scene
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print; market scene with a black man sitting on a bench before two women, one white and holding up a rabbit for examination, the other black and holding a basket of fruit and two fowl. In front of him is a table with fowl that he is selling. Two baskets of fruit are beside him. More fowl and meat are on hooks on the wall behind him. Conversation between the white woman and the man is contained in dialogue bubbles over their heads (see inscriptions).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- date made
- 1848
- lithographer
- Baillie, James S.
- artist
- Bucholzer, H.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- hand-colored (image production method/technique)
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 8 in x 12 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 31.75 cm
- overall: 10 in x 14 in; 25.4 cm x 35.56 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2295
- catalog number
- 60.2295
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Eating
- Livestock
- Chronology: 1840-1849
- Birds
- Comic prints
- Blacks
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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