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Travells eldest son in conversation with a Cherokee chief.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Travells eldest son in conversation with a Cherokee chief.
Description
English: Two men face each other in profile, standing on a grassy mound. The taller (left), who wears a laced suit and sword with a ruffled shirt, is James Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller whose 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1768-1773', appeared in 1790. The other is Williamson, an Edinburgh bookseller and tavern-keeper, who had published an account of his adventures in America: 'French and Indian Cruelty exemplified in the Life of Peter Williamson', 1757, &c, and compiled the first Edinburgh directory (1773). Their words are engraved beneath the design:


'[J. B.] How dare you approach me with your travells. There is not a single word of them true. [P. W.] There you may be right, and aliho I never dined upon the Lion or eat half a Cow and turned the rest to grass, yet my works have been of more use to mankind than yours and there is more truth in one page of my Edinh directory than in all your five Volumes 40. So when you talk to me dont imagine yourself at the Source of the Nile!' 1791


Etching with some stipple
Depicted people Representation of: James Bruce
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 215 millimetres
Width: 136 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,4.339
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Bruce's travels were regarded with scepticism until confirmed by later travellers, see BMSat 5317. Kay is supposed to have seen the two men in conversation at the Cross of Edinburgh; they are here represented standing on a hillock whence flows the chief source of the Nile.

Collection, No. 140. Kay, No. LIX.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-339
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