Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas, after 1710

Not on View

series Title

Four Iroquois Rulers

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 41 x 25.4 cm (16 1/8 x 10 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 84, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.43

Artists / Makers

John Simon (artist) British, c. 1675 - 1751

John Verelst (artist after) British, born the Netherlands, c. 1675 - 1734

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow King of the Maquas.; lower left in plate: J Verelst pinx.; lower center in plate: I. Simon Fecit; lower center in plate: Sold at ye Rainbow and Dove ye Corner of Ivey Bridge

Exhibition History

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 3.

Bibliography

1884: Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.