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Sagayenkwaraton (baptized Brant). Named Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas (Mohawk)

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Item

Date:

1710

Reference:

R14181, Volume number: 2, Box number: OP-0127/X2--OP-0127/X3

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2836995

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John Petre collection

Sagayenkwaraton (baptized Brant). Named Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas (Mohawk)
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1710

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Place of creation:

England

Extent:

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 91.5 x 64.3 (support).
Support 91.500 x 64.500 cm
Platemark x cm

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Item is a portrait of Sagayenkwaraton (baptized Brant) by John Verels, an Indian King nicknamed The Maquas King.

Provenance:

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Private collection

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Artist: Verelst, John, 1648-1734

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General note:

For more information concerning this work see The Four Indian Kings John G. Garratt, The Four Indian Kings (Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1985), Painted Past (Ottawa; Painted Past (Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1984), pp. 59-62, cat nos. 32-35; and Facing History (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1993), p. 6, cat. no. 6.
"Sagayenkwaraton (baptized Brant). Named Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas (Mohawk)" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall)

Conservation:

July 1977 - the painting received treatment in P.A.C. conservation section.

Custodial history:

Commissioned for the court of Queen Anne, the paintings appear to have passed from the Royal Collection into the collection of the Petre family of Kent, sometime in the 1830s, and thence continued by family descent to the vendor.

Accompanying material note:

July 1977 - the work is in an 18th century period frame.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available, Digitization project: Treasured Memories.

Reproduction note:

A reproduction of this painting was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01

Exhibitions note:

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Exhibition title: The Four Indian Kings. Curators: Martha E. Cooke, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1977.10.16 - 1977.11.20., Exhibition title: People of the Great Peace. Curators: Albany Institute of Art and History, Albany, New York; 1981.10.30 - 1982.04.23., Exhibition title: The Convenant Chain- Indian Ceremonial and Trade Silver and the Four Indian Kings. Curators: McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec; 1982.10.25 - 1983.03.20., Exhibition Title: The Painted Past. Curator: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1984.10.02 - 1984.10.31.

Further Venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; 1987.04.10 - 1987.06.07.
Further Venue: McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec; 1987.07.08 - 1988.01.03.
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1989.06.01 - 1989.07.11, Exhibition Title: Facing History - Portraits from the National Archives of Canada. Curators: Lydia Foy, Sylvie Gervais, Peter Robertson, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1993.05.27-1993.09.08, Exhibition Title: Body Art: Marks of Identity. Curator: Laura Morse, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York; 1999.11.16 - 2000.05.29., Exhibition Title: One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure. Curator: Ineke H. Tirion-Beijerink, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1995.10.01-1996.01.07., Exhibition Title: Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850. Curator: Clarie Everitt, National Portrait Gallery, London, England; 2007.03.08 - 2007.06.17, Exhibition title: Four Indian Kings. Curators : Portrait Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Canada; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; 2008.09.12 - 2009.01.25, Exhibition title: The "Four Indian Kings" : War and Diplomacy in 1710. Curator : Stéphane Roy, Portrait Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Canada; Canadian Museum of Civilization 2010.06.10 - 2010.09.06., Exhibition title: Crossing Paths: The "Four Indian Kings" and the work of Jeff Thomas and Shelley Niro. Curators : Stéphane Roy and Carolyn Cook, Portrait Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Canada; Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario 2010.10.08 - 2010.12.24., Exhibition Title: Enlightenment, Innovation and Revolution: The Long 18th Century. Curator: Ihor Holubizky, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario; 2011.09.02 - 2011.11.05, Exhibition title: On the Trails of The Iroquois. Curators: Henriette Pleiger, Art & Exhibition Hall, Bonn, Germany; 2013.03.22 - 2013.08.04
Further venue: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; 2013.10.18 - 2014.01.06, Exhibition title: Building the Bafferton. Curators: Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States; 2016.09.09 - 2017.01.08, Exhibition Title: Living Words: Aboriginal Diplomats of the Eighteenth Century. Curator: Moira McCaffrey, McCord Museum, Montréal, Québec; 2001.05.04-2001.09.09., Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 1: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1997.05.14-1998.01.31, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 2: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.02.01 - 1998.09.30, Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 3: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.11.10 - 1999.11.30

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: in brushpoint l.l. "Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow. / King of the Maquas - 1710".

Container note(s):

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C-092419 : framed

Varying form of title:

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Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow (Christianized Brant), 1710
Subject heading:

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Indian

Portraits

Aboriginal

SUBJ. - Portrait : Aboriginal - Sa Ga Yeth Qua Pieth Tow, N.A. Indian King of the Maquas, 1710
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1977-035 PIC
00002
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Protective supervision is required during consultation.

Volume [R14181]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [1977-035] OP-0127/X2--OP-0127/X3

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0127/X2 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0127/X3 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1977-035]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-092419 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1977-35-2 Acquired with a special grant from the Canadian government in 1977
Copyright: Expired

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