Frontispieces, 1888-1927:

UTC: The Collected Illustrations

  This page allows you to explore the illustrations from eighteen different American editions of Stowe's novel, published between 1852 and 1929. The editions are identified on the chart below simply by publication date, but if you're curious about a specific edition check THE KEY. It's interesting to see which chapters drew the most illustrations, which the least, and how the patterns of re-presentation changed over time. Most and least, by the way, are right next to each other -- Chapter 20 is "Topsy"; Chapter 21 is "Kentuck."

  Many of these illustrations were drawn by British artists, and then re-printed in American editions of the novel. "1888" would more accurately be 1853: the 105 illustrations published in Houghton Mifflin's "New" edition of 1888 were taken, without acknowledgment, from one of the 1853 British pirated editions of the novel; because the Houghton Mifflin edition, however, was both an authorized one and widely distributed in the U.S., it makes sense to identify it by the later date in this archive. On the other hand, at least two 20th century American reprintings of Uncle Tom's Cabin combined illustrations and paintings done by British artists in 1853 and 1904; because the American reprintings were small editions, it makes sense to identify these pictures by their date and place of origin: i.e. as 1853Br and 1904Br. Altogether there are over 600 illustrations accessible here. Not included, though, are illustrations of characters or scenes that don't appear in Stowe's text, nor any of the images from the 19 illustrated children's versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin (you can see those at UTC AS CHILDREN'S BOOK.

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