Don't You Worry So, Jimmy
Date1902
Artist
Florence Scovel Shinn
(American illustrator, 1869–1940)
Illustration CitationMrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Caldwell Hegan (New York: The Century Co., 1902)
MediumInk and watercolor on paper
Dimensionssheet: 10 5/8 × 7 1/2 in. (27 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1981
Object number1981-13
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextA best-seller of 1902, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a humorous tale of a poverty-stricken Kentucky family. The hope-over-despair chronicle was made into movies, stage productions, radio shows, and merchandise such as dolls. Here the ever-optimistic Mrs. Wiggs encourages one of her children. Advertisements for the book, which sold for one dollar, noted that it contained "18 full-page pictures by Florence Scovel Shinn."
