Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. Lith. Co. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. Lith. Co. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Pocahontas saving the life of Capt. John Smith / New England Chromo. Lith. Co.
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In this color chromolithograph, Pocahontas throws herself across John Smith to shield him from the clubs raised over his head, the rescue scene that has come to define their story in popular memory. The account comes from Smith's own writings, published about seventeen years after the 1607 capture, and historians have long doubted it because no other early source mentions the episode. Boston's New England Chromo. Lithographic Company produced the print around 1870, when chromolithography was a popular way to reproduce vivid color images, and the picture shows how Americans of that era preferred to remember Virginia's colonial beginnings.
| Created / published | Boston : New Eng. Chromo. Lith. Co., c1870. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph, color. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870. |
| Notes | C3414A2 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Pocahontas,--d. 1617. Smith, John,--1580-1631--Capture & imprisonment. Indians of North America--Women--Virginia--1600-1610. Powhattan Indians--Women--1600-1610. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217374 |
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