Cupid on a makeshift raft, using his bow as an oar and an arrow for a mast
- Title: Cupid on a raft
- Contributor: Corbaux, F. 1812-1883, artist
- Published: England, approximately 1826
826.00.00.94
Acquired October 2024
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America! of wealth thou modern mine
“Two native Americans wearing fronded head-dresses and armed with arrows, on a sea-shore, one kneeling on a rock with one hand propped on cones from a palm-tree, the other standing clothed in a goat’s skin, gesturing out to left with an ingot in one hand; a crocodile on the sand, a European ship at sea and three figures gathered around a hammock set between palms under a canopy on rocks in the upper right; from a set of the four quarters of the world; republished state.”–British Museum online catalogue.
- Printmaker: Moore, James, active approximately 1761-1763, printmaker.
- Title: America! of wealth thou modern mine … [graphic] / Amiconi pinxt ; Moor fecit.
- Edition: [State 2].
- Publication: London : Printed for & sold by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, [approximately 1765]
765.00.00.02.1+
Acquired February 2024
Soldier with an arrow in his chest
A soldier, possibly from the English Civil War, looks with shock towards an arrow embedded in his chest. He sits, surrounded by foliage, holding a dagger in his right hand.
- Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
- Title: [Soldier with an arrow in his chest] [art original].
- Production: [England], [1780s?]
Drawer Drawings B87 no. 31
Acquired November 2022
The dance of the calumet of the sun
Depiction of the dance probably performed by the Illinois to strengthen peace between the tribes. The Calumet, a large pipe, was usually presented to the honoured guest. The tribe surrounds the circle in which two men dance with arrows above their heads; the circle includes arrangements of bows and arrows and tomahawks.
- Title: The dance of the calumet of the sun, or pipe of peace, performed on the most solemn occasions by the Indian nations in North America [graphic].
- Publication: London : Pub. by T. Tegg, Jany. 21, 1809.
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
809.01.21.01
Acquired July 2016
Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her rigth foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance another Arawak is shown ready to shoot his his arrow.
- Printmaker: Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810, printmaker.
- Title: Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic] / Benedetti sculp.
- Published: London : Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard, [1 December 1792]
Catalog Record & Digital Collection
792.12.01.03
Acquired April 2014