The Darktown Elopement: "Skip softly lub, dont sturb de ole man an de bull pup!"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Currier & Ives
Artist bio: American, active New York, 1857–1907
Artist role: Publisher
Artist nationality: American
Date: 1885
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 10 in. × 12 7/8 in. (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Image and text: 11 in. × 12 7/8 in. (27.9 × 32.7 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (31.1 × 41.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952
Accession year: 1952