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The warrior, the voyager and the artist : three lives in an age of empire /

A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both. This engaging history of empire brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two of his portraiture subjects - Ostenaco and Mai - and explores the intrusion of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fullagar, Kate (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
Reynolds, Joshua, > Sir, > 1723-1792.
Omai.
Portrait painters > Great Britain > Biography.
Cherokee Indians > Biography.
Indigenous peoples > Travel > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Social life and customs.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century.
British colonies.
Cherokee Indians.
Civilization.
Indians of North America > Colonial period.
Manners and customs.
Portrait painters.
America.
Great Britain.
United States.
1600-1799
Biographies.
History.

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