print;
book-illustration;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3175
- Title
- Series: The Uncle Tom's Cabin Almanack
- Description
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Incomplete abolitionist pamphlet with a titlepage and two further illustrations; on the titlepage, Justice on a pedestal holding the open Bible on her right arm, holding her left arm and mantle over three black children, one naked and kneeling; chains and whips at their feet, a sword, scales and liberty cap to left; page 7, a plate entitled "Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave, on an English platform": Douglass orating, whole-length, his right arm raised, a white male audience behind; page 11, a plate entitled "Flight of fugitives to Canada": a party of fifteen escaped slaves, some children, headed by a man on a horse pointing onwards to the North star. 1853
Letterpress pamphlet with wood-engraved illustrations
- Production date
- 1853
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres (page size)
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Width: 170 millimetres (page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Reid attributes the title vignette to Cruikshank (R.4316) but there is no signature. Cohn only attributes R.4317-9 to Cruikshank. The titlepage and pl.11 are signed by "Dalziel", but pl.7 has no signature.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1978
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3175