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Tejonihokarawa (baptized Hendrick). Named Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, Emperor of the Six Nations
Date:1710Reference:R14181, Volume number: 4Type of material:ArtFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:2836993Date(s):1710Bilingual equivalent:Place of creation:EnglandExtent:1 painting : oil on canvas ; 91.5 x 64.5 (support).
Support 91.500 x 64.500 cm
Platemark x cmLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:Item consists of a portrait by John Verelst of Tejonihokarawa (baptized Hendrick), an Indian King of North America proclaimed Emperor of the Six-Nations.Provenance:Additional name(s):Additional information: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:aJuly 1977 - the work is in an 18th century period frame.Availability of other formats note:Colour transparency available.Exhibitions note: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: 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: Les arts en Nouvelle-France. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Québec; 2012.08.02 - 2013.04.28., Exhibition title: Building the Bafferton. Curators: Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States; 2016.09.09 - 2017.01.08., Exhibition title: Canadian History Hall, Canadian Museum of History: 2017.07.01--, Exhibition Title: Living Words: Aboriginal Diplomats of the Eighteenth Century. Curator: Moira McCaffrey, McCord Museum, Montréal, Québec; 2001.05.04-2001.09.09.Signatures and inscriptions note:Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed recto: in brushpoint l.l. "Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row. / Emperor of the Six Nations - 1710.Container note(s):C-092415 : framedSubject heading:Source:PrivateOther accession no.:1977-035 PIC
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Protective supervision is required during consultation.Volume [R14181][Consultation Open]4 Item no. assigned by LAC 4[Consultation Open]Copy negative [1977-035][Consultation Open]C-092415 Item no. assigned by LAC 4[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Credit: Library and Archives Canada / acc. no. 1977-35-4 / e011179910
Acquired with a special grant from the Canadian Government in 1977
Copyright: Expired
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