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English: Title: The brave old Hendrick the great sachem or chief of the Mohawk Indians

Abstract: Print shows Henderick Peters Theyanoogin (King Hendrick), the great Mohawk sachem, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing European style military uniform and holding hatchet in his right hand and a wampum belt in his left. Impressions of this engraving were offered for sale in the November 1755 issue of Gentlemen's Magazine within months of Hendrick's death. Hendrick negotiated peace between the Six Nations and Great Britain at the Albany Conference of 1754. He was killed during the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755. Physical description: 1 print : etching and engraving ; 36.4 x 26.2 cm (plate), 38.4 x 27.5 (sheet)

Notes: Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 111.; Caption continues: ... one of the Six Nations now in alliance with, & subject to the King of Great Britain.; Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.; Title from item.
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