1841

[A. P. H.]. "The Baptism of Pocahontas. On the Picture in the Rotunda at Washington." [Philadelphia] Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine 19.4 (October 1841): 178. No sooner does that Chapman painting (1840) open the door to the baptism as a subject of representation than we get a poem adding to the scene: "From thy dark shades of superstitious lore, / Thou com’st arrayed in purest vestal white, / That he, the man of God, might on thee pour / Jordan’s still wave, to give thy blindness sight."
[poetry; painting]
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