A group of American prints, maps and graphics many in Perry Hopf frames
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Description
A group of miscellaneous prints, maps and graphics of mostly Canadian and Native American interest. A large group of about 19 items (all but one framed, most in fine Perry Hopf frames) including antique portraits and maps and later reprints and reproductions. No items examined out of frame, sold as a decorative collection and as is.
Portaits and prints include:
The engraved portrait Joseph Thayendaneken The Mohawk Chief. [London: circa 1776.] About 6 x 4 1/2 inches, trimmed to plate mark. This is a scarce portrait of antiquarian interest; The unattributed portrait Hopkins Commandant En Chef, la Flotte Américaine, Paris, circa 1778, 6 x 4 1/4 inches with wider margins and platemarks; A hand-colored lithographed folio-sized portrait Kish-Kallo-Wa. Shawnee Chief from McKenney & Hall; A hand-colored lithographed octavo-sized portrait Kee-She-Wa. A Fox Cheif from McKenney & Hall; four circa 1908 sepia toned small format photographs by Edward S. Curtiseach about 7 1/2 x 5 inches; a later edition of View of the Great Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River, London, no date, hand-colored engraving, 11 x 7 inches; a hand-colored copy of Paul Revere's Bloody Massacre extracted from a book but nicely colored and framed, 6 x 6 inches; and a few others including later graphics.
Maps include:
One sheet only of Antonio Zatta's L'Acadia, le Provincie di Sagadahook e Main, la Nuova Hampshire, la Rhode Island, e Parte di Massachusset e Connecticut, circa 1778, hand-colored engraved map, about 17 x 13 inches with wider margins; John Lodge's A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, circa 1750s, 11 1/2 x 17 inches; and a reproduction.
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