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Market Scene
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About this work
Colored print; market scene with a black man sitting on a bench before two women, one white and holding up a rabbit for examination, the other black and holding a basket of fruit and two fowl. In front of him is a table with fowl that he is selling. Two baskets of fruit are beside him. More fowl and meat are on hooks on the wall behind him. Conversation between the white woman and the man is contained in dialogue bubbles over their heads (see inscriptions).
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Credit lineMarket Scene. 1848. Baillie, James S.. National Museum of American History, Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection. CC0.