Partial drafts, holograph, corrected, circa 1889 to 1891.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Christie's sale, New York, 2010 December 3, lot 559) on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 2010. and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author.
A tan linen sampler with cross, satin, straight, split, outline, back, and stem stitches worked in colored silk thread by Josephine Evans, a student at a Quaker school in Burlington County, New Jersey. The sampler includes a six-line religious verse, below which appears two baskets of fruit on either side of a stylized Quaker schoolhouse with five windows, which is set in a pastoral landscape featuring two trees, a lawn with sheep, and a woman, four children, a dog, and a deer. The woman, a teacher, is ringing a bell to call the four children into the school; one child is African American and carries a basket on his head. The sampler is signed and dated at the lower third, "Josephine Evans aged [threads missing] years. April 11th 1839," and is bordered by a band of daisies and tulips connected by a green vine.
Description:
Embroidered verse in English. and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2001.
Subject (Geographic):
Burlington County (N.J.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Evans, Josephine,--active 1839
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Burlington County and Quaker girls--New Jersey--Burlington County
The official letters to Parrott and his letters to his family cover his naval career, 1831-1874, expecially during the Mexican and Civil Wars. There are some earlier family papers, silhouettes of his mother and father, and a daguerrrotype of Parrott. Correspondence for years 1845-1849 is bound with transcript in a volume entitled: Conquest of California. 602 p.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject (Name):
Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe,--1780-1828. and Parrott, Susan Parker,--1780-1852.
A full-length standing figure of a boxer carved in wood by Leslie Garland Bolling. He incised the title "The Boxer" in the front edge of the surface on which the figure stands, and "Sept. 13th 33" and "LGBolling" on the back edge. A metal plate attached to the front of the base gives the title as "Wild Cat," the ring name of an unidentified boxer in Richmond, Virginia, who posed for Bolling.
Alternative Title:
Wild Cat.
Description:
Gift of Carl Van Vechten., Leslie Garland Bolling (1898-1955), African American sculptor living and working in Richmond, Virginia., and Title from sculpture and plate on base of sculpture.
Subject (Name):
Bolling, Leslie Garland, 1898- artist
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers--Portraits, African American sculptors--Virginia, African Americans in art, and Sculptors--Virginia
BEIN Zab V3115 +979A 12: Stamped numbers on envelopes are: 166, 179, 300. The first two have the author's autograph, the third one does not. In box with ms. title: Assorted cards / Erica Van Horn., Each round pinback button is printed with the pattern of a different envelope interior and is housed in a clear, 6 x 7 cm. zip lock bag. Each bag includes a small card (5 x 5 cm.) with the title and author's name printed on recto and a unique, stamped number and author's autograph on verso., and Erica Van Horn.
The two figures, facing front, are kneeling side by side on an upholstered stool. Eva's left hand and Topsy's right are joined and Eva's right arm is around Topsy's shoulder. Their clothing is white with brown accents; Eva's hair is brown; the stool is entirely white.
Alternative Title:
Topsy and Eva
Description:
A Staffordshire statuette depicting Topsy and Eva, characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's cabin. and Title printed in gold on a banner at base of statuette.
Uncle Tom is depicted in center of llustration, dancing while holding a little black child up on his left shoulder. Two black boys are also dancing and a white boy is waving a handkerchief and cheering them on. A black woman is putting a covered pot on the table to Uncle Tom's right; details of cabin walls and ceiling appear in the background.
Alternative Title:
Uncle Tom at home
Description:
"Uncle Tom's cabin" printed above illustration on plate; "Uncle Tom at home" printed below it., A child's plate; small, octagonal and decorated with a black transfer printed vignette., Attributed to one of five Staffordshire potters with the initials JH (John Hawthorn of Burslem, John Holland of Tunstall, John Hebb of Fenton, John Hughes of Cobridge, and John Holloway)., and On verso of plate are potter's initials, JH, and an impressed Stafford knot.
A head of a woman carved in wood by Leslie Garland Bolling. It is unsigned and undated. A metal plate attached to the front of the base gives the title as "Woman's Head."
Description:
Gift of Carl Van Vechten., Leslie Garland Bolling (1898-1955), African American sculptor living and working in Richmond, Virginia., and Title from plate on base.
Subject (Name):
Bolling, Leslie Garland,--1898-
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors--Virginia, African Americans in art, and Sculptors--Virginia