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1. Capt. Keith & family betrayed & made prisoners by the American Indians [graphic]
- Creator:
- Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Oct. 22, 1808.
- Call Number:
- 808.10.22.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Captain Keith and family betrayed and made prisoners by the American 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., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Tegg
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Familes, Fighting, Tomahawks, and Warfare
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Capt. Keith & family betrayed & made prisoners by the American Indians [graphic]
