Philip, King of Mount Hope, engraved by Paul Revere, 1772
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“PHILIP. KING of Mount Hope,” signed “P. Revere sc.” at the lower right: Metacom, the Wampanoag sachem the English called Philip, standing with a musket, a belt of wampum and a long mantle, a band of his men in the background. Revere engraved it in Boston for the Newport reprint of Thomas Church’s book on his father’s campaigns, nearly a century after the war. No likeness of Philip was ever drawn from life: Revere borrowed the figure from a mezzotint by John Simon after John Verelst’s 1710 portraits of the “Four Indian Kings” who visited Queen Anne. Philip’s home was at Mount Hope, now Bristol, Rhode Island, where he was killed by Church’s company on 12 August 1676. In 1672 he had written to Capt. Hopestill Foster of Dorchester asking for serge to make a coat.
- Related to
- Hopestill Foster, Michael Pierce, Isaac Howland, William Harlow
- Credit
- Paul Revere, *Philip King of Mount Hope*, engraving, 1772, for Thomas Church, *The Entertaining History of King Philip's War* (Newport: Solomon Southwick, 1772). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.90.640, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924; public domain (Open Access)
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