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Mr. & Mrs. Jay Rial with Rial & Draper's Ideal Uncle Tom's Cabin. [graphic].
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Contributor
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's cabin.
Title
Mr. & Mrs. Jay Rial with Rial & Draper's Ideal Uncle Tom's Cabin. [graphic].
Publisher
[United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
United States. 1881
Date
[ca. 1881]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 9 x 13 cm (3.25 x 5 in.)
Description
Vignette from an advertisement for the touring stage company's production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Contains bust-length portraits of Jay Rial, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a brown tie, and brown jacket, and Louise Rial, wearing her hair in curls and attired in a black dress with a gold brooch and a red shawl. Also depicted are brown dogs in recline flanking the portraits of the Rials, a miniature view of a plantation house, and palm leaves. Jay Rial, a New York theatrical manager, began tours of his production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" circa 1881. The production was associated with novel features of live dogs and donkeys and props, such as floating cakes of ice, and was purported to have earned $1,000,000 by the end of its run. The Rials divorced in 1897.
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from dates of the theatrical production.
See also trade card with duplicate design. [trade cards - Academy of Music, 1975.F.738].
Purchase 2006.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Rial, Jay, -1920 -- Portraits.
Rial, Louise, -- Portraits.
Rial & Draper.
Dogs
Plantations
Theatrical productions
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Vignettes -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Entertainment [105879.D]
Accession number
105879.D
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African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
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