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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
SUMMERS, W.
A Black Ball * A Black
Tea Party.
Two hand-colored copper
engravings: 8 x 10
1
/
4
and 7 x 10
3
/
8
inches;
the former with approximately one inch
of margin, the latter with only
1
/
4
to a
1
/
2
inch of margin, and some light soil.
London: Summers, by H. Isaacs, circa
1820’s-1830’s
[400/600]
Following the appearance of a series of hand-
colored caricatures titled “Life in Philadelphia,”
issued by Edward Williams Clay of Philadelphia,
at least two English houses began to issue their
own versions of same. The Black Ball was
printed on the reverse of an engraving of a fam-
ily of beggars. The house of Summers was
definitely economizing.
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