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15. Selected image: page 14. Source: Capellano, Antonio. "Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas." 1825. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 14.) Rasmussen and Tilton point out that the rescue was so accepted that it was chosen for inclusion in the Capitol building in a relief by the Italian sculptor Capellano that emphasized the reaction of Powhatan's "grim courtiers" to Powhatan rather than his response to Pocahontas.
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