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54. Selected image: page 28. Source: Brueckner, Henry. "The Marriage of Pocahontas." 1855. Also engraved by John McCrae. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 28.) Rasmussen and Tilton say that this "wedding scene carries no statements about southern pride or government policy toward Indians [like Chapman's 1840 painting of the baptism] . . . . [it] has a more universal appeal and was distributed to audiences in both the North and South, as well as in Europe." For contemporary description and analysis, see the Lossing articles below this year. For another wedding picture, see Hohenstein 1867. For Rolfe and Pocahontas together, see Glass 1850.
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