Uncle Tom saves the life of Little Eva.
| One of twelve plates from folding accordian-style screen of scenes
from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Tom, Eva, unindentified men,
Augustine St. Clare, unidentified women (probably including Ophelia). Caption below picture: "It was nothing for Tom to keep afloat in the water till, in a moment or two, the child rose to the surface, and he caught her in his arms, and swimming with her to the boatside, handed her up, all dripping, to the grasp of hundreds of hands, which, as if they all belonged to one man, where stretched eagerly out to receive her." Bauerrichter & Br. 68, Basinghall St. (COPYRIGHT. The Clifton Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia. |