Dust Jacket
Date1910
Artist
Margaret Harper
(American artist, active early 20th century)
Illustration CitationCover for Diddie, Dumps and Tot, by Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle (New York: Harper and Bros.1882, 1910)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
frame: 29 × 23 in. (73.7 × 58.4 cm)
frame: 29 × 23 in. (73.7 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the John Sloan Memorial Foundation, 1982
Object number1982-8
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe names of the title refer to the three White girls on the book's cover. The plot revolves around plantation life before the Civil War, told from the White childrens' point of view. The book romanticizes plantation life and is filled with racist humor and negative stereotypes about pre-Emancipation enslaved people. Notice the African American servant depicted holding the youngest girl balanced on the fence. The book's author was born on a plantation in Alabama in 1850.
