Eva and Topsy / Louisa Corbaux delt. et lith. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of Eva and Topsy / Louisa Corbaux delt. et lith. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Eva and Topsy / Louisa Corbaux delt. et lith.
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Two characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, the wealthy child Eva St. Clare and the enslaved girl Topsy, appear together in this color lithograph. Stowe's story ran in an antislavery newspaper in 1851 and 1852 before it was published as a book, and the friendship between the two girls became one of its most recognizable episodes. Louisa Corbaux drew and lithographed the print, which London publishers Stannard & Dixon issued around 1852, when the novel was widely read in Britain as well as the United States. The image frames the novel's moral concerns as a quiet scene between two children.
| Created / published | London : printed and pubd. by Stannard & Dixon, c1852. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Subjects | Girls--1850-1860. Friendship--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217015 |
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