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44. Selected image: page 39. Source: Sully, Thomas. "Pocahontas." 1852. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 39.) This is the "elder" Sully, uncle of Robert Matthew Sully. Abrams 1999 calls this painting a copy of Robert Matthew Sully's painting that appeared in McKenney and Hall 1844. Rasmussen and Tilton 1994 call it "perhaps the best-known representation of the princess." They see her portrayed for the Virginia gentry at her best moment, "after her absorption into English culture but before her fateful trip to England." A person of "obvious grooming and deportment" (note the necklace and brooch), a person of "remarkable refinement and grace," she is far removed from Indianness.
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