Burning of the Spanish camp at Chickasaw / J.W. Orr, N.Y. – Antique Print
![Burning of the Spanish camp at Chickasaw / J.W. Orr, N.Y., [published 1858] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e3/e319d98a8276-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Burning of the Spanish camp at Chickasaw / J.W. Orr, N.Y., an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Burning of the Spanish camp at Chickasaw / J.W. Orr, N.Y.
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Unlike the many engravings of de Soto's march on this board, this one shows the night the Chickasaw set fire to the Spanish camp in what is now northeastern Mississippi, in the winter of 1540 to 1541. The attack destroyed supplies and equipment that the expedition could not easily replace, and Spanish chroniclers recorded it as one of the expedition's hardest setbacks. The scene appeared as an engraving on page 449 of Lambert A. Wilmer's 1858 biography of de Soto, which was written for a mid-nineteenth-century American readership fascinated by early Spanish exploration.
| Created / published | [published 1858] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Engravings 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T. Lloyd, 1858, p. |
| Subjects | Soto, Hernando de,--ca. 1500-1542--Journeys--Mississippi. Indians of North America--Mississippi--War--1540-1550. Discovery & exploration--Mississippi--Chickasaw County--1540-1550. Chickasaw Indians--War--1540-1550. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,035 × 3,396 px · prints to 10 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181168 |
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