The Camp Meeting
date: label: Date made
content: 1837
name: label: maker
content: Robinson, Henry R.
label: maker
content: Clay, Edward Williams
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This 1837 black and white caricature print racially stereotype people at a camp meeting. The print is a burlesque image depicting three black men in a large pulpit; two are seated and the man in the middle is preaching, saying "You'll all go the Hell!!" Three black couples kneel and sit before the pulpit.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The print was drawn by artist/lithographer Edward Williams Clay and printed and published in 1836 by Henry R. Robinson. Edward Williams Clay (1799-1857) came from a large, well off Philadelphia family. He began working as a political caricaturist in 1828 and was throughout his artistic career an engraver, lithographer, etcher, and portrait painter. Before his career as an artist began in earest Clay was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, but quickly left to pursue art, first in Philadelphia starting in 1819 and then in in New York City. His step-father, who was a jeweler and silversmith appears to have fostered his artistic nature in design.Clay and Robinson specialized in political caricatures particularly Major Jack Downing,.in theater portraits, and sheet music. By the mid 1830's he was working in New York and partnering frequently with Henry R. Pobinson, who published much of his work through 1838 and then from 1843-1856. He worked with John Childs from 1838-1844. After losing his eyesight, he retired from art and held minor office in Delaware before his death in December of 1857.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Henry R. Robinson, was a caricaturist and lithographer in New York City. He was listed as a carver and gilder from 1833-34, as a caricaturist from 1836-43 and as a lithographer and print publisher from 1843-51, though he published Edward Williams Clay's work often from 1834-1856. Henry Robinson was known for political prints that championed the causes of the Whig Party (which later merged with the Republican Party) and satirized the opposing Democratic Party. New York state historian Peter C. Welsh has called Henry Robinson the "Printmaker to the Whig Party".
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: Chronology: 1830-1839
label: Subject
content: Blacks
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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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.60.2974
label: catalog number
content: 60.2974
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 12 in x 10 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm