John Hart
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: Hart, John
label: maker
content: Metropolitan Printing Company
label: maker
content: Rothengatter
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print depicts a central bust portrait of John Hart (1833-1904) surrounded by six images of him displaying a variety of facial expressions in blackface. Hart was born in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania and began his minstrel career in 1854 as a member of Eisenbeice’s Minstrels. Known as "Fat" Hart for his portly figure, he toured with a variety of minstrel groups through New York, Pennsylvania, and other states and with performers like Edward Harrigan (1844-1911).
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by the Metropolitan Printing Company and E. Rothengatter. Emil Rothengatter (1848-1939) was a German-born artist and designer of circus posters who worked in cities including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896 he won a contest to design the flag of Cincinnati for a work he called “Zero of Burnet Woods.” However, controversy over whether Cincinnati should have a flag delayed the design’s formal adoption until 1940. Emil Rothengatter also wrote a book entitled <i>Art of Poster Making in the United States</i>, published in 1911. He died in New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Comic prints
label: Subject
content: Blacks
label: Subject
content: Theater
label: depicted
content: Stereotypes
label: depicted
content: Blackface
label: depicted
content: Minstrels
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3019
label: catalog number
content: 60.3019
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 21 1/2 in x 16 3/4 in; 54.61 cm x 42.545 cm