Lot 1126
1126
STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Cabinet photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), by Hastings, Boston (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1876]. (6½ x 4¼ in.) including mount.
STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Cabinet photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), by Hastings, Boston (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1876]. (6½ x 4¼ in.) including mount.

Price realised USD 1,680
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USD 1,200 – USD 1,800
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STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Cabinet photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), by Hastings, Boston (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1876]. (6½ x 4¼ in.) including mount.

Price realised USD 1,680
Price realised USD 1,680
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STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Cabinet photograph signed ("Harriet Beecher Stowe"), by Hastings, Boston (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1876]. (6½ x 4¼ in.) including mount.

"THE LITTLE LADY WHO STARTED IT ALL" (LINCOLN). An artistically vignetted bust-length profile portrait of the author, signed clearly on the mount. Howe's enormously inflential novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a melodramatic story of a faithful black slave and his villainous overseer, Simon Legree, played a highly significant role in focusing and energizing public opinion against slavery. Howe later claimed that God wrote the story, and she merely took dictation.

Provenance: The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 4) -- M. Wesley Marans (sale, Christie's, 17 April 1996, lot 93).

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