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26. Selected image: page 35. Source: Rice, Daniel, and James Clark. "Pocahontas." 1842. (Thomas McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Vol. 3. Philadelphia, 1844.) (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 35.) Rasmussen and Tilton say that this is a lithograph of a painting by Robert Matthew Sully, which, in turn, was a copy of the so-called Turkey Island portrait of Pocahontas that Ryland Randolph, a descendant of Pocahontas, acquired in England. And they point out that the figure of Pocahontas here "was invented to provide an alternative image" for the "rigid, formal, and Europeanized" 1616 van de Passe figure. This lithograph would later appear famously in McKenney and Hall 1844. Sully did three later paintings of Pocahontas in the 1850s. The Turkey Island portrait (Turkey Island was the Randolph home) was in bad shape and disappeared.
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