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19. Selected image: page 19. Source: Chapman, John Gadsby. "The Warning of Pocahontas." 1836. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 19.) This is Chapman's painting of the "second" rescue, Pocahontas's dark night journey through the irksome woods to warn Smith of her father's murder plot. Rasmussen and Tilton note that the composition is meant to complement Chapman's painting of the coronation of Powhatan and that Chapman had clearly read Smith's account. "For enhanced drama, [the other soldiers] sleep through the incident like guards at the tomb in Renaissance paintings of Christ's resurrection." (See White's "warning" painting 1852.)
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