Portrait of Joseph Thayendaneken (Joseph Brant, 1742-1807) [OHQ2-PICTURES-S-R-10]

nobody@flickr.com (Toronto Public Library Special Collections) — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:42:48 -0700

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Thayendanegea, or Joseph Brant, (1742/43-1807) visited England from 1775 to 1776, when James Boswell interviewed him and published an account in the London Magazine. This is, apparently, a re-lettered state of the plate published in The London Magazine, London, July 1776 (vol. 45) opposite p. 339.
Inscribed in the plate: “From an original drawing in the possession of James Boswell, Esqr / Joseph Thayendaneken, commonly called Brant, a Mohawk Chief.”

Creator: London Magazine (London)
Date: 1776
Identifier: JRR 1673
Format: Picture
Rights: Public domain
Courtesy: Toronto Public Library.
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Portrait of Joseph Tayadaneega, called the Brant (Joseph Brant, 1742-1807) [OHQ2-PICTURES-S-R-8]

nobody@flickr.com (Toronto Public Library Special Collections) — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:42:47 -0700

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Inscribed in the plate: “Joseph Tayandaneega, called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations. Engraved from an original painting of G. Romney, in the collection of the Right Honble the Earl of Warwick by J.R. Smith”.
From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online : “Brant was a noble figure who dedicated his whole life to the advancement of his people and who struggled to maintain their freedom and sovereignty. His major failure was his inability to understand the nature of British imperialism and to comprehend the fact that the British would not permit two sovereignties to exist in Upper Canada. (…) Only Brant’s larger vision of Indian unity, had it been achieved, would have succeeded in maintaining Indian sovereignty for a longer period and slowing white expansion. In this plan he was defeated by jealousies and divisiveness among the confederated Indian nations, and by American and then British successes in undermining the general confederacy. When Tecumseh revived the concept of a confederacy in the next generation, it was already too late.”

Creator: Smith, John Raphael (British, 1752-1812)
Date: 1779
Identifier: JRR 158
Format: Picture
Rights: Public domain
Courtesy: Toronto Public Library.
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Portrait of Joseph Thayendaneken (Joseph Brant, 1742-1807) [OHQ2-PICTURES-S-R-10]

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