Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
May 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 62v
Notes:
Du Simitière's drawing was of "a roughly six-by-four-inch engraved medal known as a frontlet [that] bears the coat of arms of the British royal family. King Charles II commissioned this frontlet as a gift to Cockacoeske, the Queen of the Pamunkey, after the signing of the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1677." Encyclopedia Virginia
On 6 Mar 1779 Du Simitière had written to Isaac Zane at his Marlboro Iron Works in Virginia to thank him for sending a drawing of the plate and to "recommend him to purchase it at any rate & that I shall be satisfied to take an exact drawing of it." Du Simitière may have gained access to the plate, because his drawing is such a precise copy of it. He intended to use his drawing in his projected but never accomplished medallic history of America.
On list of "Paintings and Drawings done."
