Details
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER (1811-1896). Cabinet photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), by Hastings, Boston (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1876]. 165 x 108 mm. (6½ x 4¼ in.) including mount, some minor soiling A bust-length profile portrait of the author, signed on the mount.
"Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the story of a faithful black slave and his villainous overseer, Simon Legree - the book credited with helping to precipitate the Civil War. She claimed that God wrote it, and she merely took dictation"--W.M.
"Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the story of a faithful black slave and his villainous overseer, Simon Legree - the book credited with helping to precipitate the Civil War. She claimed that God wrote it, and she merely took dictation"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 4).