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Joseph Brant, Thayendanegea, The Great Captain of the Six Nations

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Date:

ca. 1838

Reference:

Box number: A239-01

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2904545

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Joseph J. Murphy fonds

Joseph Brant, Thayendanegea, The Great Captain of the Six Nations
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Date(s):

ca. 1838

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : line engraving
Support 22.300 x 16.400

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cat. 17/9/36, Portrait file: 501-1; Item no. 501-1-1b (copy 2), In 1779 J.R. Smith produced a mezzotint after the Romney portrait of 1776; Archibald L. Dick produced an engraving after the mezzotint for the frontispiece to Volume One of W.L. Stone's "Life of Joseph Brant", (Alexander V. Blake: New York, 1838), Ezra Ames (1768-1836) also produced a portrait of Joseph Brant, which George Catlin copied; this was then engraved by Archibald L. Dick for Stone's "Life..."
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Artist: Romney, George, 1734-1802

Depicted: Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807

Engraver: Dick, Archibald L. 1805-ca. 1855 active early 19th century

Engraver: Dick, A., fl. late 19th century

Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807
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Attributions and conjectures:

After the artist George Romney.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: Inscribed in the print below image, b.: JOSEPH BRANT THAYENDANEGEA / THE GREAT CAPTAIN OF THE SIX NATIONS / Engraved from an Original Painting of G.Romney in the Collection of the Right Hon.[^ble] the Earl of Harnick, by A.Dick

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A239-01 : Mode of storage: a239

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Portraits

Source:

Private

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1936-077 PIC
00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [1936-077] A239-01

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1936-077] C-019352

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1936-77-1
Copyright: Expired

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