IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 311910 accession number: C.16-2022 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 30 November 2022 updated: Wednesday 10 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Glazed white earthenware plaque, printed in black and painted in pale green, bluish-green, yellow, pale orange, pink, red, grey and black with a bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe in an oval frame with below, a rectangular pale orange panel inscribed in black: 'MRS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE/THE AUTHOR OF/UNCLE TOM'S CABIN' (the RS of MRS smaller and raised). The portrait is surrounded by black and white male and female characters from said novel, and a whip and shackles lie in the foreground. A narrow gold band and a wider gold band encircle the rim. title: plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Historical and Collectable online auction, ‘Commemoratives, Fairings, Stevengraphs, Staffordshire Pot Lids and Prattware’ on Tuesday 18 October 2022, lot 86. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2022 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311910 PEOPLE ------------------- Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-96) SUBJECTS ------------------- enslaved people enslaved people TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, glazed, transfer-printed in black and painted in pale green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, red, flesh, pale orange, dark brown and black enamels and gilded round the edge of the frame of the portrait and the outer edge of the plaque glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: ceramic category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1855 - 1855 creation date earliest: 1855 creation date latest: 1855 culture: 19th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Cruikshank, George maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1 dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 16.4