Capt. Keith & family betrayed & made prisoners by the American Indians [graphic]

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Title: Capt. Keith & family betrayed & made prisoners by the American Indians [graphic]
Alternative Title: Captain Keith and family betrayed and made prisoners by the American Indians
Creator: Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: Oct. 22, 1808.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by T. Tegg
Abstract: Capt. Keith struggles as he is attacked by two Indians one of whom has grabbed his rifle while another Indian stands with his tomahawk raised above the Captain's head. The Captain's wife with her child in her arms reaches up towards her husband as she kneels in a row boat. Other Europeans are shown in the background left and on the right, frightened, fleeing, or struggling with a band of Indians
Description: Title etched below image.
From a series of plates by the caricaturist William Elmes depicting shipwrecks and maritime disasters, attacks by native Americans and by other indigenous peoples and pirates, ceremonies, punishments and torture: The mariner's marvellous magazine, or, Wonders of the ocean; containing the most remarkable adventures and relations of mariners in various parts of the globe. [London] : Published by Thomas Tegg ..., 1809.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased from Grosvenor Prints; July 2016.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.5 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1808
Material: aquatint with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Familes
Fighting
Tomahawks
Warfare
Subjects: Indians of North America
Familes
Fighting
Tomahawks
Warfare
England > London > 1808

Access: Public
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