COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
80-204
Record number:
80-204-1
JCB call number:
80-204
Image title:
John D. Hunter
Creator 1:
C. R. Leslie
Creator 1 role:
Drawn on Stone by
Creator 2:
C. Hullmandel
Creator 2 role:
Printed by
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Longman & Co.
Image date:
1823
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
lithograph
Image dimension height:
11.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
8 cm.
Page dimension height:
22.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Portrait of John Dunn Hunter.
Source creator:
Hunter, John Dunn, 1798?-1827
Source Title:
[Manners and customs of several Indian tribes] Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen: with anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs, ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Source date:
1823
notes:
John Dunn Hunter was kidnapped from a settlement west of the Mississippi River by native Americans, perhaps the Kickapoo, as a child and lived with the Kansas and Osage until the age of nineteen. He abandoned his Indian family and entered white society, became educated, and met some of the most influential people of the age. He was accused of being an imposter, but went to England and Scotland where he was celebrated by even the royal family. Perhaps intending to establish a kind of utopian sanctuary for the Indians, he then returned to the United States and traveled to Texas where he was shot by an Indian. Artist is probably the British painter Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859).
Time Period:
1801-1850
Subject matter:
captivity narrative; Indian captivities
References:
O. T. Ventress, [Untitled review], The History Teacher, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Aug., 1973), pp. 634-635; http://www.tshaonli… (June 2008)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1980.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Hunter, John Dunn, 1798?-1827--Portraits
John D. Hunter
