Yankee Notions for September 1860

New York: T. W. Strong, Caloric Printer, 1860. Color-printed woodcut broadside, after a design by Michael Angelo Woolf. 24x19 inches. Some light staining, horizontal fold, minor damage in lower left corner margin. Color-printed woodcut broadside, after a design by Michael Angelo Woolf. 24x19 inches. A rare large-format broadside, printed in red and black, advertising the September 1860 issue of the comic monthly magazine Yankee Notions. The image, by Michael Angelo Woolf (1837-1899), shows a crone-like woman with exaggerated features in profile holding a broom in her left hand while licking what appears to be a stemmed goblet of ice cream held daintily in her right hand. Standing to her left is a woman in a striped red dress, wearing an overcoat with her back turned to the viewer, with the above title on the back of her coat. It is not entirely clear what the artist is lampooning, but has been suggested to be anti-Irish.