(HUMOR) Daniel Claypoole Johnston artist and etcher Scraps f

Sale 2546 - Lot 97

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(HUMOR.) Daniel Claypoole Johnston, artist and etcher. Scraps for the Year 1830. 4 engraved plates; issued without any text leaves. Oblong 4to, 9 1/2 x 12 inches, original illustrated wrappers, worn at backstrip, pencil notes; light vertical fold throughout, minor wear and foxing. Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1830

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The second of a series of nine collections of Scraps issued over two decades by a graphic satirist known as "the American Cruikshank." The earliest editions are rarely seen, particularly in the original wrappers. Each of the 4 plates contains 9 vignette cartoons. They touch upon politics, theater, art, class tensions, domestic manners, and fads. An abolitionist vignette remains effective. One traced at auction since 1961.