Object Number 1956.0082.002

Object Name

Print (Mezzotint)

Title

Etow Oh Koam King of the River Nation

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by Charles K. Davis

Creator (Role)

John Verelst (Painter)
1648

John Simon (Mezzotinter)
1675-1755

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1710-1710

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Bottom left; I: Verelst pinx:
2. Inscription; Bottom center; Simon Fecit
3. Inscription; Bottom right; Sold at y\e Rain Bow & Dove y\e corner of Ivey bridge in the Strand

Subjects

Portrait; Native American; American Indian

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Mezzotint, Engraving

Dimensions (inches)

16.8 (H) , 10.4 (W) , 15.7 (Image H) , 10.2 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

42.6 (H) , 26.5 (W) , 15.7 (Image H) , 10.2 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom. Plate H: 16.375 in (41.5 cm). Plate W: 10.16 in. (25.8 cm). Chain intervals: 2.9-3.1 cm; 9 laid lines per cm.

Publication Date

1710

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

I

Watermark

Partial fleur de lis

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 19, pp. 74-75.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 43, p. 96.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 100, p. 41.
[Article] Hinderaker, Eric. 07//1996 The "Four Indian Kings" and the Imaginative Construction of the First British Empire. The William and Mary Quarterly. 53 (3): 487-526.
• Portraits discussed on pp. 495-96, 505-9.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 1. 1-460.
• Listed as no. 84, p. 1095-96.
[Book] Volk, Joyce Geary. 2006 The Warner House: A Rich and Colorful History.
• Same portrait in 1720s wall mural: pp. 24-25, figs. 2.4-2.5
[Article] Robertson, Bruce. 1985 "The Portraits: An Iconographical Study", in Garratt, John G. & Robertson, Bruce. 1985. The Four Indian Kings. 139-77.
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[Thesis] Brincat, Lauren Holly. 2014 John Browne's Flushing: Material Life on a Dutch Frontier, 1645-1700. M.A. Winterthur Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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