Hendrik, Great Sachem of the Mohawks

ca. 1756

English, Artist Elizabeth Bakewell, Publisher

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Title Hendrik, Great Sachem of the Mohawks

Artwork Date ca. 1756

Makers (Artist) English Elizabeth Bakewell (Publisher) English

Medium Engraving in black, colored by hand

Dimensions Overall: 12 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (32.1 × 24.4 cm) Framed: 20 3/4 × 16 7/8 × 1 1/2 inches (52.7 × 42.9 × 3.8 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 57.136

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower center: The brave old Hendrick the great Sachem or Chief of the Mohawk Indians | one of the Six Nations now in Alliance with & subject to the King of Great Britain | Sold by Eliz. Bakewell opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill.

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(Kennedy Galleries, Inc.)

1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

A Nation is Born. Kennedy Galleris. New York, 1954, no. 46.

Early American Prints. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 23-May 19, 1957, no 9.

Bulletin of the DIA 37, no. 1 (1957): pp. 11-15 (ill.).

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English, Hendrik, Great Sachem of the Mohawks, ca. 1756, engraving in black, colored by hand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 57.136.