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
"A woman supporting a toddler, talking to a man who lies on the ground, a dog beside them and an old woman watching from her seat just inside the door of a thatched cottage to right, with a gnarled tree overshadowing the scene and landscape continuing to left; after Morland."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by J. Young, No. 58, Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square
"A woman with two children on a rocky sea-shore, weeping and comforting them as they watch their father's ship depart, shown in the background to left; illustration to a song."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of text below image.
