Title

Pocahontas saves Captain Smith's life, 1607 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Pocahontas saves Captain Smith's life, 1607 (c1880). John Smith, a member of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, after being captured by Native Americans and brought before their chief, Powhatan. Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas, right, begs for Smith's life to be spared. It is not certain whether the event ever took place. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_179

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (7,1Mb) / 11,5in x 16,8in / 3458 x 5054 (300dpi)

Keywords

England female women woman people male girl girls man men family Indian father daughter country fatherhood danger guy dangerous British English THREAT Virginia captive poor poverty native Native American captivity location century Britain rescue saving prisoner begging lady concept dad B&W rescuing chief American Indian pleading captured MONOCHROME 17th century black & white black and white B W Jamestown USA seventeenth century The Print Collector colonist TGN John Smith Pocahontas Powhatan engraving Unknown John Edmund Lady Rebecca Matoaka Rebecca Matoaka Rebecca Smith Edmund Ollier Ollier Wahunsonacock Edmund Ollier engraving