Pocahontas
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Pocahontas
published by William Richardson, after Simon de Passe
line engraving, published 10 August 1793 (1616)
6 3/4 in. x 5 3/4 in. (172 mm x 145 mm) plate size; 7 1/2 in. x 6 in. (190 mm x 152 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D5537
Sitterback to top
- Pocahontas (Amonute) (née Matoaka, later Rebecca Rolfe) (circa 1596-1617), Indian princess. Sitter in 3 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Simon de Passe (1595-1647), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 200 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
- William Richardson (active 1777-1814), Bookseller, printseller and auctioneer. Artist or producer associated with 400 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D5536: Pocahontas (from same plate)
- NPG D28135: Pocahontas (from same plate)
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Castle Street, Leicester Square, London)
Events of 1793back to top
Current affairs
Whig MP Charles Grey enters a motion for parliamentary reform but is defeated in the House of Commons.Art and science
Radical philosopher William Godwin publishes Political Justice, an inflamatory document that promoted rational anarchism. This crystallised a wider feeling that a new era of world peace and progress was beginning.Sir William Beechey is appointed Portrait Painter to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte.
International
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are executed and the Reign of Terror begins.France declares war on Britain, Holland and then Spain. William Pitt addresses the House of Commons and Britain hesitantly joins the first coalition of anti-revolutionary European states to oppose the French threat.
Attack on Corsica in which Captain Horatio Nelson loses an eye.
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