Darktown bicycling-a tender pair – Vintage Wall Art
![Darktown bicycling-a tender pair, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1897. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6e/6ed193936fe9-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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Darktown bicycling-a tender pair 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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Darktown bicycling-a tender pair
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Among the Darktown caricatures Currier & Ives issued in 1897, this lithograph shows a courting pair out on bicycles, drawing on the bicycle craze that swept the United States in the 1890s. The Darktown series was a body of racist comic prints that portrayed Black Americans as figures of ridicule, using exaggerated features and mocking assumptions about their courtship and leisure. The catalog raisonné cited in its record places the print among the firm's late-century comic output. Today it is best read as evidence of how popular entertainment reinforced racial stereotypes, not as neutral genre humor.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1897. |
|---|---|
| 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 × 1,061 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112338 |
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