Murder by the Indians of a Mother and Ten Children At the Westward, Last Friday. Tall folio, 17 x 10.25" printed on laid paper, circa February 1810 signed in type William Bond; n.p. With a woodcut of a standing American Indian holding a bow and arrow, surrounded in the blank margins of the sheet by 11 coffins, each identified by the name and age of the victims, with two columns of text describing the circumstances of the murders, with the top of the column beginning with the following explanatory text: Extract of a letter from the unfortunate father to his brother, in Philadelphia, dated Upper Louisiana, Feb. 20, 1810. The body of the text describes how the family of William Bond was kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by Indians. Bond was able to escape after the Indians apparently became drunk. Bond is explicit in his descriptions, and gruesome in the extreme as he describes the near dismemberment by tomahawking of his unfortunate wife and children. A scarce sheet, for which we could find no sales records or institutional holdings. Condition: Even toning, all four corners have paper repairs, upper right with slight inpainting, two old paper repairs at left margin, a couple of very small inset paper reairs on interior at folds, all done using laid paper, VG-
Murder by the Indians of a Mother and Ten Children At the Westward, Last Friday. Tall folio, 17 x 10.25" printed on laid paper, circa February 1810 signed in type William Bond; n.p. With a woodcut of a standing American Indian holding a bow and arrow, surrounded in the blank margins of the sheet by 11 coffins, each identified by the name and age of the victims, with two columns of text describing the circumstances of the murders, with the top of the column beginning with the following explanatory text: Extract of a letter from the unfortunate father to his brother, in Philadelphia, dated Upper Louisiana, Feb. 20, 1810. The body of the text describes how the family of William Bond was kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by Indians. Bond was able to escape after the Indians apparently became drunk. Bond is explicit in his descriptions, and gruesome in the extreme as he describes the near dismemberment by tomahawking of his unfortunate wife and children. A scarce sheet, for which we could find no sales records or institutional holdings. Condition: Even toning, all four corners have paper repairs, upper right with slight inpainting, two old paper repairs at left margin, a couple of very small inset paper reairs on interior at folds, all done using laid paper, VG-
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