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Featuring a Winslow Homer print from this desired year...
Featuring a Winslow Homer print from this desired year...
Item # 713394
March 07, 1874
HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, March 7, 1874
* Illustrator Winslow Homer
The entire front page features a political cartoon by famed artist Thomas Nast, captioned: "The Good and Bad Spirits at War".
But likely the most desired print is the nice full page by Winslow Homer, titled: "The Chinese In New York--Scene In a Baxter Street Club-House" which is in very nice, clean condition.
Other prints within include: "The Rev. Charles Kingsley" "Opening the Sixth Ward Soup House in Centre Street", a doublpg. centerfold showing: "The Marriage of Prince Alfred & the Grand Duchess Marie...", a full page with four prints of: "The Ice Crop on the Hudson", and more.
Complete in 20 pages with the Supplement, very nice condition.
background: The March 7, 1874, Harper’s Weekly engraving by Winslow Homer titled “The Chinese in New York — Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House” offers a vivid depiction of Chinese immigrant life in 19th-century New York, specifically highlighting the interior of what appears to be an opium-smoking den. In the illustration, several Chinese men are gathered in a dimly lit room, reclining and sitting around a low table scattered with pipes and small tools traditionally associated with opium use. The relaxed, almost trance-like postures of some figures suggest the effects of opium smoking, a practice that was legal yet increasingly stigmatized during the period. This image reflects the widespread contemporary stereotypes linking Chinese immigrants to opium dens, gambling, and secretive social clubs, which were often sensationalized in American media. While Homer’s work is known for its observational realism, this particular scene also played into prevailing xenophobic attitudes, portraying Chinese communities through a lens shaped by fear and misunderstanding, emblematic of the social tensions and racial prejudices of late 19th-century urban America.
Category: 1870-1879
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