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On Display: House - Oyster Bay Room
Print (Mezzotint)
Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperour of the Six Nations
John Verelst, John Simon
1710-1710
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator/Artist/Maker
John Verelst (Painter)
Place of Origin
London; London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1956.0082.001
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds provided by Charles K. Davis
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Object Number
1956.0082.001
Object Name
Print (Mezzotint)
Title
Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperour of the Six Nations
Category
Prints and Maps
Creator (Role)
John Verelst (Painter); John Simon (Mezzotinter)
Place of Origin
London; London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1710-1710
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Inscription
Location: Bottom left
Inscription: I Verelst pinx:
Type: Inscription
Location: Bottom center
Inscription: I. Simon Fec:
Type: Inscription
Location: Bottom right
Inscription: Sold at the Rainbow and Dove the corner of Ivey bridge in the Strand
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- Portrait
- Native American
- American Indian
Materials
- Ink
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Mezzotint
- Engraving
Dimensions (inches)
16.7 (H) x 10.5 (W) x 15.67 (Image H) x 10.2 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
42.3 (H) x 26.7 (W) x 39.8 (Image H) x 25.8 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
H at left. W at bottom. Plate H: 16.375 in (41.6 cm). Plate W: 10.16 in. (25.8 cm). Chain intervals: 2.8-3.0 cm; 9 laid lines per cm.
Publisher Date
01/01/1710
Place of Publication
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Edition State
I
Edition Watermark
none
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
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 fall meeting of the Walpole Society selected from the collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 99 p.
• Published: no. 101, p. 41.Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 17, pp. 70-71.Book: Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 42, p. 95.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. 2.4-2.5Article: Robertson, Bruce. 1985 "The Portraits: An Iconographical Study", in Garratt, John G. & Robertson, Bruce. 1985. The Four Indian Kings. 139-77.