BIB_ID
310728
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
18--.
Credit line
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.
Title from Ray.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. 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.
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