Lesson 9 Document 7 Could use a detail from this one
TITLE: A dream caused by the perusal of Mrs. H.
Beecher Stowe's popular work Uncle Tom's Cabin / litho. of C. R. Milne,
Louisville, KY.
CALL NUMBER: PGA - Milne--Dream... (D size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-15058 (b&w film
copy neg.)
SUMMARY: An imaginative and biting satire on Harriet
Beecher Stowe and her recently published antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's
Cabin." Printed serially beginning in June 1851, the novel first appeared
in book form in 1852. The artist has concocted a chaotic, nightmarish vision,
where armies of demons and other monsters battle in a barren, desert setting
reminiscent of the infernal visions of Hieronymus Bosch and Jacques Callot.
(Murrell points out, in fact, that the plate borrows its central motif--an
enormous flying demon--from Callot's "Temptation of St. Anthony.") In
the center a leering black man dressed as a Quaker holds a flag "Women of
England To The Rescue." To the left, near the mouth of a cave marked
"Underground Railway," Mrs. Stowe is pulled and harassed by demons.
She holds up a book that reads, "Uncle Tom's Cabin, I Love the
Blacks." Another woman (or perhaps Mrs. Stowe again) rides in a parade of
demons on the right. In the distance, several monsters feed copies of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" to a blazing fire.
MEDIUM: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph printed in
black and buff ; image 49 x 67.3 cm.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [Louisville, Ky.] : J.C. Frost
& G.W. Hall, publishers, Louisville, KY., c1853.
CREATOR: Milne,
Colin R., b. ca. 1817, lithographer.
RELATED NAMES: Frost,
J. C., publisher.
Hall,
G. W., publisher.
NOTES: Title from item. "Entered ... 1853 by J. C. Frost & Geo. W. Hall ..." The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on July 21, 1853. DLC Murrell, p. 196-97 Weitenkampf, p. 12 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1853-1.
TOPICS:
Abolitionism and abolitionists,
parodied or attacked.
African Americans (portrayed).
Quakers.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Underground Railroad.
FORMAT:
Political cartoons 1850-1860.
Lithographs 1850-1860.
