Darktown lawn party: Music in the air – Antique Wall Art
![Darktown lawn party: Music in the air, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1888. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/29/2987b684096f-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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Step back in time with Darktown lawn party: Music in the air, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Darktown lawn party: Music in the air
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The 1888 hand-colored lithograph "Darktown lawn party: Music in the air" shows a lawn gathering named in its title and belongs to Currier & Ives's Darktown series. The series, issued by the New York firm in the 1880s, used exaggerated caricature and minstrel-show stereotypes to ridicule Black Americans, and its prints circulated widely in the years after Reconstruction, reinforcing demeaning views of African Americans. Its humor rests entirely on those stereotypes, so today the prints are most useful as evidence of the racism of their period and of how popular illustration was used to shape it.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1888. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| 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 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174324 |
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