Item 98a: Engraving, titled “The Fratricide at Wyoming” by Henry Warren and James Charles Armytage (Removed to Black Case #8), [1860]
Item — Box: 21, Folder: 98a
Dates
- Created: [1860]
Creator
- Warren, Henry, 1794 - 1879 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Engraving
Condition Note:
Good, print is slightly discolored.
Measurements:
12 in. x 10 13/16in.
Title:
The Fratricide at Wyoming
Description:
A lithograph depicting the murder of Henry Pencel by his brother John Pencel during the American Revolution. Henry was a patriot, John a loyalist. For more information about this piece, visit the Founder of the Day’s website. The Battle of Wyoming or Wyoming Massacre took place on July 3, 1778 in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. It was a military engagement between the Patriot militia and a force of British Loyalist soldiers and Iroquois warriors that occured at the same time as the American Revolutionary War. About 300 Patriots died, the Americans suffering a great defeat. Many were killed by the Iroquois as they fled the battlefield or were taken prisoner. Much looting and burning of buildings transpired all over the Wyoming Valley. Many inhabitants of the area fled to the Pocono Mountains, Stroudsburg, Easton, and to the Susquehanna River in Sunbury. An inaccurate newspaper report claimed that many women and children had been reportedly massacred and unfortunately taken as fact for many years after. According to Valley Views of Northeastern Pennsylvania, by Gilbert S. McClintock, “The story of the killing of Henry Pencil by his brother John at the time of the massacre is fully told in the journal of a brigade chaplain in Sullivan’s army, who made the entry July 8th, 1789, at Wyoming. For description of event see Stewart Pearce, Annals of Luzerne County, page 130.”
Henry Warren was born in 1794 and was a painter, draftsman and illustrator. He died in 1879.
Born around 1802, James Charles Armytage was an English engraver of the 19th century. Over the course of his life he produced more than 200 plates. He died on April 28, 1897.
Location:
Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
{Pa.}
H. Warren. Hon. Mem. Philadelphia Soc. of Fine Arts. &c. &c. J.C. Armytage.
THE FRATRICIDE AT WYOMING.
Creator
- Warren, Henry, 1794 - 1879 (Person)
- Armytage, James Charles, c. 1802 – 1897 (Person)
Repository Details
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