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1897 Judge Magazine Baseball Comic Art Featuring Racial Stereotypes.
Lot 434. 1897 Judge Magazine Baseball Comic Art Featuring Racial Stereotypes. At the height of the 1881 depression, James Albert Wales, Frank Toussey and George H. Jessop all left their positions at the well-established Puck magazine to found Judge. By the early 1900s, they eclipsed their former employer and boasted contributing artists such as f James Montgomery Flagg and Richard Outcault. This full-page color lithograph by Sackett & Wilhems of New York features four comic vignettes of stereotypical black figures playing baseball. Organized around a non-tapered bat and two baseballs that read “Darktown Dead” and “Red Beauty,” each scene shows a different base. At the very end, the catcher is shown wearing an advertisement on his chest protector for “Corrugated Liver Pads.” The print measures about 9” x 12” and is matted and framed to 17 ½” x 21 ½”. Image is nm, and modern framing shows wear. Bold and colorful images from a different time, a part of baseball’s early history that makes Jackie Robinson’s arrival in the majors 50 years later all the more important.
Winning Bid $50.
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