?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(RACISM--HUMOR.) CLAY, E. W. 'Well Brudder what 'fect you tink Morgan's deduction gwang to hab" * 'Shall I hab de Honor to dance de next quadrille.' Two hand-colored engravings, 6 x 5-1/2 and 7-1/2 x 6 inches; some overall light discoloration; margins close to plate impressions. Philadelphia: E W. Clay, circa 1828-1830
E.W. Clay's racist caricatures were an instant hit, both here and across the Atlantic, where Treagar, Summers and other houses began to both copy and invent their own caricatures.
