Difference between revisions of "2: The Man-Monster Lithograph"
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| − | + | A week or so after Sewally's trial a lithograph of him dressed as a woman, and titled "'The Man-Monster; Peter Sewally, alias Mary Jones” was printed in New York City and offered for sale at the shop of H.R. Robinson. | |
| − | + | <MAN MONSTER LITHO GOES HERE> | |
| − | Robinson was a prominent publisher of prints, many of them political satires. | + | Robinson was a prominent publisher of prints, many of them political satires. This publisher was also an innovator in the sale of sensational prints drawn from notorious court cases. The same summer he issued the "Man-Monster" print, he published another depicting a murdered prostitute, Helen Jewett, the subject of a sensational trial and media scandal. |
| − | + | In 1842 Robinson was arrested and tried after his shop was raided and the police seized $20,000 worth of print and visual pornography, leading to one of the first obscenity cases in New York. | |
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| − | + | Henry R. Robinson, as depicted in the cartoon, Loco Foco Persecution, 1836. | |
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<ROBINSON PICTURE GOES HERE> | <ROBINSON PICTURE GOES HERE> | ||
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| − | Newspaper reports of Sewally appear 10 years after his original trial. | + | Newspaper reports of Sewally appear 10 years after his original trial. In 1846, alluding to the notorious trial and salacious stories that surrounded it, a newspaper mentioned that “Pete Sevanley, alias 'beef steak Pete,” is “playing up his old game, sailing along the street in the full rig of a female.” |
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| − | In 1846, alluding to the notorious trial and salacious stories that surrounded it, a newspaper mentioned that “Pete Sevanley, alias 'beef steak Pete,” is “playing up his old game, sailing along the street in the full rig of a female.” | ||
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Revision as of 11:30, 24 June 2011
Continued from: 1: The Man-Monster Story
A week or so after Sewally's trial a lithograph of him dressed as a woman, and titled "'The Man-Monster; Peter Sewally, alias Mary Jones” was printed in New York City and offered for sale at the shop of H.R. Robinson.
<MAN MONSTER LITHO GOES HERE>
Robinson was a prominent publisher of prints, many of them political satires. This publisher was also an innovator in the sale of sensational prints drawn from notorious court cases. The same summer he issued the "Man-Monster" print, he published another depicting a murdered prostitute, Helen Jewett, the subject of a sensational trial and media scandal.
In 1842 Robinson was arrested and tried after his shop was raided and the police seized $20,000 worth of print and visual pornography, leading to one of the first obscenity cases in New York.
<JEWETT LITHO GOES HERE>
Helen Jewett as depicted by Robins, 1836.
Henry R. Robinson, as depicted in the cartoon, Loco Foco Persecution, 1836.
<ROBINSON PICTURE GOES HERE>
Newspaper reports of Sewally appear 10 years after his original trial. In 1846, alluding to the notorious trial and salacious stories that surrounded it, a newspaper mentioned that “Pete Sevanley, alias 'beef steak Pete,” is “playing up his old game, sailing along the street in the full rig of a female.”
