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.
Baker & Smith Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874 (after) John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.) Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin
Published / Created:
ca. 1853-1865?]
Call Number:
Art Storage 926
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Abstract:
A small porcelain jar decorated with two scenes from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's cabin. Both scenes are variations on illustrations by Hammatt Billings that appeared in the illustrated edition of Uncle Tom's cabin, published in Boston by John P. Jewett and Company in 1853. Baker and Smith were the original engravers.
One illustration depicts Eva teaching Uncle Tom to read. They are seated together in a bower. Eva has a book in her lap and is gesturing to her left at a sunset scene on a lake. She wears a white dress; her straw hat with a blue ribbon is on the ground at her left. Tom wears a red and white striped jacket, white shirt and blue pants; his straw hat with a red ribbon lies on the ground to his right. "Uncle Tom & Eva" is printed below the scene.
The other illustration, with "Uncle Tom," printed below the scene, shows Uncle Tom tied to a post and being beaten by two male slaves at the direction of Simon Legree. Legree is dressed in a brown coat, yellow vest, white shirt, red and white checked trousers and is wearing a straw hat. One slave wears a purple jacket and blue pants, the other a blue jacket and red and white striped pants. Tom, bare-chested, is wearing white pants and is gazing up at a vision of Eva in heaven.
Alternative Title:
Uncle Tom & Eva., Uncle Tom and Eva., and Uncle Tom.
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.
