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Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois

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Item

Date:

1795

Reference:

R13133-186-3-E, Volume number: 12

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2937177

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Prints of American Indians by J.G. de St. Sauveur

Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1795

Place:

[Paris]:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : etching, hand-coloured 25.3 x 16.6 cm.
Support 22.900 x 15.900 cm
Image 15.300 x 10.800 cm
Platemark 21.200 x 14.000 cm

Language of material:

French

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Image depicts an Iroquois chief dressed partly in European clothes. In one hand he holds a war club and in the other a smoking hawk (an instrument that is both pipe and tomahawk). He wears a tricorn or bicorn hat, a medal on a ribbon, and a European (perhaps military) coat.
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Artist: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

Engraver: Laroque, J., fl. 1788-1796
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General note:

Copy negative number: C-003161
Inventory number, St. Sauveur artist file: II-13

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: Recto l.l.: J. Grasset St. Sauveur inv. direx; l.r.: J. Laroque sculp; l.c.: Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois
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Iroquois Indians

Indian

Portraits

Costume
Source:

Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Nil

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

12 Item no. assigned by LAC 176

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, acc. no. R13133-176
Copyright: Expired

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