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The brave old Hendrick, the great Sachem or Chief of the Mohawk Indians, one of the Six Nations now in Alliance with & Subject to the King of Great Britain.
London: c. 1740]. Engraving (sheet size: 340x240 mm). Condition : trimmed to the image with loss to the imprint, 160-mm repaired tear extending from the bottom, lower right corner with repaired tears and some loss, other restoration and repaired tears. Sold with all faults. a very rare image of the mohawk chief, killed during the french & indian war while fighting for the british. “King Hendrick visited England in 1710 when he was about 30 years old and again about 1740 when he was sixty. His portrait was painted on both occasions and prints made from all of the likenesses. On his second visit the King presented Hendrick with an elaborate court dress trimmed with gold lace … In these he sat for his portrait, which was executed by a London artist. From this portrait, which has no date, engravings were made, of a large cabinet size” (Vail). The print is very rare. Vail locates four institutional copies (including one colored) and another which sold at the 1916 Halsey Sale. The imprint line, trimmed from this copy, reads “Sold by Eliz. Bakewell opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill.” No other publication information is known. Vail, Portraits of “The Four Kings of Canada,” A Bibliographical Footnote, pp 216-226 (in To Dr. R. Essays Here Collected and Published in Honor of the Seventieth Birthday of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. Philadelphia, 1946).