An event that may have inspired Fenimore-Cooper's novel Last of the Mohicans.
This depiction of The Death of Jane McCrea was painted in 1804 by John Vanderlyn.
Jane McCrea was a loyalist whose death at the hands of British-allied natives was a cause celebre and media coup in modern parlance for American patriots in the Revolution.
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This is the first stage of an excellent project. This is the corner tower of a recreation of the fort in the movie Drums Along the Mohawk...
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This came out in 1984. Was an excellent addition to a small set of books.
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This maker of figures is working on miniatures based around the theme Braddock's disaster. First up Natives and Canadians followed by B...
Nasty!
ReplyDeleteA big contrast to the first Vanderlyn painting I saw last Autumn: his Ariadne in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts!