A skin game / V. Ostenbach. - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress
Summary
Print shows an African American man seated on a stool in a shoemaker's shop; the stereotyped Jewish cobbler tells the man that the boot he is examining, "Dot ish French calf hand sewed."
P or D6119 U.S. Copyright Office.
Title appears as it was printed on the item.
Signed on stone: V. Ostenbach.
Copyright by Currier & Ives, N.Y.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5942
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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