‘Uncle Tom’
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1852 (circa)
Physical Description
Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 4 x 4 1/2 in.
Production Description
Production Date: 1852 (circa)
Provenance
Current Location: Oliver Rossetti
Archival History: WMR; by descent to Arthur Rossetti
Reproductions
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The Pall Mall Magazine , vol. 16 (1898), 495.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The drawing illustrates and doubles the crude parody that DGR wrote about Stowe's celebrated novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The parody takes off from Stephen Foster's minstrel song “Uncle Ned”.
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