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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1863,0509.625
Description: Portrait of Pocahontas, aged 21, half-length, in tall hat, stiff lace collar, with ostrich fan, in an oval. 1616 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Simon van de Passe; Published by: Compton Holland
School/style: Dutch; British
Production date: 1616
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 170 millimetres; Width: 117 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (106); Hind 1952-64 / Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (II.266.47); Franken 1881 / L'oeuvre gravé des van de Passe (830); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1) ((Rolfe)); Bate & Thornton 2012 / Shakespeare: Staging the World (pp. 240-241; p. 242, fig. 12; p. 294)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2007 April-July BM, P&D, New World related prints 2007/8 Oct-Jan, Raleigh, North Carolina Mus of History, 'A New World:...' (not shown at second or third venues, New Haven and Jamestown) 2012 London, BM, Shakespeare 2015-16 Nov-Apr, London, Tate Britain, Artist and Empire 2016-2017 30 Nov-23 Apr, Paris, Musees des Arts Decoratifs, Proper Dress Required: A History of Clothes that have Scandalised
Associated names: Portrait of: Pocahontas
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Corrie (estate of); Purchased through: Sotheby's (24.iv.1863/167); Purchased through: Holloway (& Son)
Acquisition date: 1863
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1863,0509.625
Conservation: Treatment: 27 Feb 2007

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