A Black Tea Party
ca. 1833.
9” x 10 ½”
A Black Tea Party. Life in Philadelphia. Aquatint, colored.
London, Tregear at his humorous Print Shop, Cheapside. William Summers delineator, Charles Hunt Engraver.
The lower print in this frame is also intended to portray how people of color were trivialized and mocked during the 19th century. Ruth Starr Rose grew up feeling embarrassed by these depictions and made it her life’s work to portray Marylanders of African descent with the dignity and self-respect that she knew and admired.