Description: Little Eva: Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel by Manuel Emilio, John Whittier 1852Illustrated sheet music, (13" x 10"). 4 pages. Illustrated Hammatt Billings. George C. Rand & Co., printers. John G. Whittier (1807-1892) whose name is embossed on the slipcase, was an anti-slavery Quaker poet. I was unable to locate another offering like this with a slipcase. Music enclosed in multi-fold hard board cover and in sturdy slipcase.Notes on the item: The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 resulted in a virtual explosion of books, broadsides, sheet music, posters and other ephemera. Boston publisher John P. Jewett (1814-1884) published this song for voice and piano in the same year that he published the first edition of the novel, priced at twenty-five cents. The song was performed in a dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin adapted by George L. Aiken from Stowe's novel. Jewett published a number of anti-slavery works. The illustration on the front-cover, produced by Boston wood-engravers Baker & Smith after artist Hammatt Billings, shows Little Eva reading the Bible to Uncle Tom while seated in an arbor, and was one of numerous illustrations designed by Billings for the first edition. According to Billings's biographer James O'Gorman, "Little Eva reading the Bible to Uncle Tom in the arbor" was "without doubt the most important image of the first edition." At the time the novel was published, there was no visual precedent for an adult black man sharing an intimate moment with a small white girl, alone and out in nature. Seen outside the context of the book, Tom and Eva in the arbor would likely have been an arresting sight. Of all Billings's scenes for the book, this one proved the most captivating and was reproduced both as Billings designed it and in numerous variations on broadsides, sheet music, and elsewhere. No international shipping.Ships US Postal service, insured and with Signature ConfirmationSKU 55,284 EB
Price: 500 USD
Location: Dallas, Texas
End Time: 2025-02-05T22:41:15.000Z
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Binding: Enclosure w/ slipcase
Language: English
Special Attributes: Slipcase
Author: John G. Whittier
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co.
Topic: Historic literature
Subject: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Original/Facsimile: Original
