Object Number 1956.0567 A

Object Name

Painting (Portrait)

Title

Audience Given by the Trustees of Georgia to a Delegation of Creek Indians

Category

Paintings

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

William Verelst (Painter)-1756

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1734-1735

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Signature; Lower right; W.\m Verelst Pinxt.

Subjects

Portrait; Historical; American Indian; Native American

Materials

Oil paint; Canvas

Techniques

Painted

Dimensions (inches)

48.5 (H) , 61.375 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

123.19 (H) , 155.893 (W)

Measurement Notes

H at proper left stretcher. W at bottom stretcher.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Phillips, John. 2023 General James Oglethorpe: From Georgia to Cranham Hall.
• Published: p. 44
[Book] Meyers, Christopher C. The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays.
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[Book] Lapham, Heather A. & Waselkov, Gregory A. 2020 Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America.
• Published: cover and p. 21, fig. 1.4 (detail view)
[Book] Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle & Woodard, Buck. 2019 Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America's Indian School.
• Published: p. 169, fig. 48
[Book] Marschner, Joanna. 2017 Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World.
• Published: p. 520, no. 30.04
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published: cat. no. 63, pp. 124-5.
[Article] Sweeney, John A. H. 11//1971 Paintings in the Winterthur Collection. Antiques. 100 (5): 758-767.
• Published: pl. no. 1, p. 760.
[Book] Lockwood, Alice J. B. 1934 Gardens of Colony and State: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic Before 1840. 2.
• Key to figures in painting on p. 271.
[Article] Panther-Yates, Donald. 2001 A Portrait of Cherokee Chief Attakullakulla from the 1730s, A Discussion of William Verelst's "Trustees of Georgia" Painting. The Journal of Cherokee Studies. 22: 4-20.
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[Book] Pratt, Stephanie. 2008 The Indian Atlantic.
• forthcoming essay in this book deals with this painting
[Article] Rademacher, Cay. 2014 Pfad Der Tranen (Trail of Tears). Geo Epoche. 2014 (August): 40-53.
• Article in german-language magazine about artwork depicting the trail of tears.
[Electronic] Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian. 2016 Many Trails of Tears Teaching Module. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
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[Other] Jamestown- Yorktown Foundation. Bartering for a Continent: How Anglo-Indian Trade Shaped America.
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[Book] Calloway, Colin G. 2016 The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices fromEarly America.
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[Electronic] Berg, Dan. 2007 Emissaries of Peace Electronic Field Trip. Mr. Dan Berg 2016 http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/History/teaching/eft/emissaries/index.cfm
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[Other] Virginia's Explore Park. From Pathways to Railways.
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[Web Site] Carl Vinson Institute of Goverment. 2008 GeorgiaInfo. University of Georgia 2016 http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/
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