Strong's dime caricatures. No. 3, South Carolina Topsey in a fix... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:Strong''s dime caricatures. No. 3, South Carolina Topsey in a fix CALL NUMBER:PC/US - 1861.S924, no. 4 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-13522 (color film copy transparency) SUMMARY:The third in Thomas W. Strong''s "Dime Caricatures" series of antisecessionist prints published early in 1861. Here Topsy, the impish slave child in Harriet Beecher Stowe''s "Uncle Tom''s Cabin," personifies the secessionist state South Carolina. An elegantly dressed lady, Columbia, is based on Stowe''s Miss Ophelia, the New England spinster who attempted the moral education of the child. Topsy appears repentant at the steps of a porch before Columbia, who sits on a chair with an American flag on her lap and a liberty cap behind her. On the floor beside her is a bald eagle. Columbia shows the flag to Topsy, displaying the holes in its blue field. She scolds her, "So, Topsey, you''re at the bottom of this piece of wicked work--picking stars out of the sacred Flag! What would your forefathers say, do you think? I''ll just hand you over to the new overseer, Uncle Abe [i.e., President-elect Abraham Lincoln]. He''ll fix you!" Topsy responds, "Never had no father, nor mother, nor nothing! I was raised by speculators! I''s mighty wicked, anyhow! What makes me ack so?'' Dun no, missis--I ''spects cause I''s so wicked!" Behind her another slave turns to run down the steps exclaiming, "Hand us over to ole Abe, eh? Ize off!" Several more slaves watch or clown about in the yard beyond. MEDIUM:1 print : wood engraving with letterpress, on wove paper ; 27.6 x 36.3 cm (image) CREATED/PUBLISHED:1861. RELATED NAMES: Goater, John H. NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item. Signed: J[ohn] H. Goater del. [Thomas W.] Strong Sc. Published by T.W. Strong, 98 Nassau St., N.Y. Entered . . . 1861, by T.W. Strong . . . New York. Weitenkampf, p. 127 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-11. TOPICS: Uncle Tom''s Cabin. SUBJECTS: Slavery FORMAT: Political cartoons. REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g13522 CARD #:app1994000477/PP
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