Collection Highlights
Plan of the City of New York
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.NS3.M36.1.3ab
Medium:
Black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
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Portrait of Hendrick, "Sachem" or Chief of the Mohawks; verso: bust-length sketch of a man in profile
Object Number:
1953.264
Date:
1810
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. ( 16.8 x 14.3 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: lower, ink: "the brave and old hendrick the great Sachem or chief of the/Mohawk indians, one of the Six nations of the North america./Dessine chez miss Abbey [?] 1810"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along lower edge outside image: "the brave and old hendrick. the great Sachem or chief of the / Mohawk. indians one of the Six Nations of the North america / Deéssiné chez miss abbey aout 2 1810"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
Hendrick (born ca. 1680), the noted chief of the Mohawk Indians, was killed in an engagement with the French at the Battle of Lake George, September 8, 1755. The baroness copied her portrait from an engraving entitled The brave old Hendrick, the great Sachem or Chief of the Mohawk Indians, one of the Six nations now in Alliance with & Subject to the King of Great Britain, sold by Eliz Bakewell opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill. A copy of the original engraving is in the Print Room, NYHS.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Provenance:
De Neuville family, France; E. De Vries, Paris, 1928; Columbia University Press Book Store, NYC, 1929; Old Print Shop, NYC, 1953
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
