Details
Title Rowlandson, Mary White, ca. 1635-1711.
Alternate title [Mary Rowlandson]
Publisher [Boston? : s.n.]
Date [1770?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 9.5 x 7.3 cm.
Description Full-length portrait of the writer wearing a hat while holding a rifle in one hand and a horn in the other. A citadel is visible in the distant background.
Notes In Rowlandson, Mary W. A narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Boston, 1770), p. [2.]
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan pioneer who, during an Indian attack on her town, was taken captive with her children and held for three months before being ransomed.
The portrait was likely first used to represent Hannah Snell, the cross-dressing British soldier. Cf. Reilly, Elizabeth Carroll. Dictionary of colonial American printers’ ornaments and illustrations, p. 373.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1770-1779.
Engravings -- 1770-1779.
Subject Rowlandson, Mary White, ca. 1635-1711 -- Portraits.
Women.
Women writers.
Indian captivities.
Frontier and pioneer life.