[314] [See an earlier note on her descendants.—Ed.]
[315] Its place is sometimes supplied by a fac-simile engraved for W. Richardson’s Granger’s Portraits, 1792-96. The original Mataoka or Pocahontas picture was neither in the Brinley, the Medlicott, nor the Menzies copies, and is not in the Harvard College, Dowse, Deane, or in most of the known copies.
The Crowninshield copy (Catalogue, no. 992) had the original plate; and that copy, after going to England, came back to America as the property of Dr. Charles G. Barney, of Virginia, and at the sale of his library in New York in 1870 it brought $247.50; but it is understood that it returned to his own shelves. The Carter-Brown (1632) edition, the Barlow large-paper copy, and one copy at least in the Lenox Library have it.
[316] There exists at Heacham Hall, Norfolk, the seat of the Rolfes, a portrait thought to be of Henry, the son of Pocahontas. This is the painting mentioned by error in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. xiii. 425, as of Pocahontas.
[317] Grigsby’s authority for his statements was the son of Sully, who also painted an ideal portrait of Pocahontas. Copies of a picture of Pocahontas by Thomas Sully, and of another painted by R. M. Sully are in the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society, and it is palpable that they are both mere fanciful representations. The original of the picture which was at Cobb’s, the writer was informed by the late Hon. John Robertson, a descendant of Pocahontas, represented “a stout blonde English woman,”—a description which does not agree with the picture by Robert M. Sully purporting to be a copy.
The late Charles Campbell, author of a History of Virginia, stated that Thomas Sully was allowed to take the original from Cobb’s (it being little valued), and that after cleaning it he altered the features and complexion to his own fancy. Of the picture by Thomas Sully he states: “The portrait I painted and presented to the Historical Society of Virginia was copied, in part, from the portrait of Pocahontas in the ‘Indian Gallery,’ published by Daniel Rice and Z. Clark. In my opinion the copy by my nephew [Robert M. Sully] is best entitled to authenticity.”
[318] There is a copy in Harvard College Library; Rich (1832), no. 165, priced it at £2 2s.
[319] [Force copied from the Richmond Inquirer of September 1804, where Jefferson had printed it from a copy in his possession. Another copy was followed in the Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine in 1820, which is the source from which it was again printed in the Virginia Hist. Reg., iii. 61, 621.—Ed.]
[320] [See an earlier note.—Ed.]
[321] [See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. 1861, p. 320, and Massachusetts Archives, Colonial, 1, 475; Democratic Review, vii. 243, 453. For the later historians see Bancroft’s History of the United States, vol. ii. ch. 14, and Centenary Edition, vol. i. ch. 20; Gay’s Popular History of the United States, ii. 296; and the memoir of Bacon by William Ware in Sparks’s American Biography, vol. xiii.