The Acquisitions Table: The Quarrel
May 2nd, 2012 by Lauren Hewes
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E.W. Clay, attr., The Quarrel, lithograph, NY: John Childs, 1839.
This previously unrecorded cartoon, published in New York, is one in a set of prints investigating the social implications of interaction between white citizens and African Americans. The cartoon, which was probably designed by the artist Edward W. Clay for John Childs, depicts two African American men fighting on a dance floor, with one tweaking the nose of the other.
