Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Ridgway & Abington

Title:

Uncle Tom's cabin.

Published / Created:

Hanley, England, 1853.

Physical Description:

1 jug : relief-molded gray-green stoneware, glazed ; height 22 cm (including handle), width 19 cm (including handle), depth 14 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 61
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

Impressed on bottom: "Published by E. Ridgway & Abington, Hanley, January 1, 1853."

Title devised by cataloger.

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, page 75

Decorated with the scenes of a slave auction captioned "By auction this day, a prime lot of healthy negroes" on one side and, on the other side, a woman of color with her baby being pursued by a white man with a whip. Based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin.

Subject Terms:

Slavery -- United States. | Slave trade -- United States. | Enslaved persons -- United States. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.

Form/Genre:

Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)

Contributors:

Based on (work) Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811–1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.