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[Japanese drawing] – Vintage Wall Art

[Japanese drawing], 1750 — historic drawing
[Japanese drawing], 1750. Historic drawing from the Japanese Prints collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Japanese drawing], preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Watermelons and Black children are the whole subject of this color lithograph, which was issued as a collecting card sometime between 1850 and 1900, though the record does not give an exact year. Cards like this were often inserted into packages of tobacco, soap, and food goods, and manufacturers used bright chromolithography to catch buyers' attention. The watermelon-and-child pairing was a stock caricature in American commercial art of the period, drawing on racist stereotypes that portrayed Black Americans as idle or childlike. Today, the card is most useful as evidence of how advertising shaped racial attitudes, not as a neutral scene of rural life.

Created / published1750
CreatorIsoda Koryūsai fl. 1764-1788 artist.
Medium1 drawing.
NotesForms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Forms part of the David Murray Collection. Botanicals
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,654 × 5,376 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227624

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