Record ID:
310728
Accession number:
MA 4500
Published:
18--.
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 print : etching (hand colored) ; 59 x 91 mm
Notes:
Etching printed on card stock of a design for the three of hearts; one of a series of designs executed by Thackeray for a projected pack of comic playing cards.
Title from Ray.
Summary:
Etching shows Simon Legree in the act of whipping Uncle Tom, depicted by Thackeray as a racist caricature with protruding lips, as Little Eva stands at far right; the faces of Simon Legree and Little Eva and the lips of Uncle Tom represented by pink hand-tinted hearts.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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