The Darktown elopement: Skip softly lub, dont sturb de ole man an de bull pup! – Historic Reproduction
![The Darktown elopement: Skip softly lub, dont sturb de ole man an de bull pup!, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1885. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/08/087276f1b9fe-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The Darktown elopement: Skip softly lub, dont sturb de ole man an de bull pup! comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The title sets the scene: a couple slipping away while a sleeping father and a bulldog stand in the way, all written in phonetic dialect. Issued by Currier & Ives in New York in 1885, it belongs to the Darktown series, a run of comic lithographs that mocked Black Americans through exaggerated features and minstrel-style humor. The series was popular in the 1880s and 1890s, and historians now study it as a record of the racist stereotypes of its time. The Library of Congress cataloged the print with reference to Gale Research's catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | c1983 |
| Notes | Caricature issued as part of the Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174305 |
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