To this day, Simon van de Passe's 1616 engraving of Rebecca Rolfe is displayed in London's National Portrait Gallery. It was the first of many depictions of the indigenous Virginian woman, who married ...

6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (sight), 13 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (frame) ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today from ...

This engraving is the only known portrait of Pocahontas rendered from life. During her stay in England, Dutch engraver Simon van de Passe captured her likeness and recorded that she, like the artist ...

In mid-1607, she was a 12-year-old Indian girl who cartwheeled naked through the fort at Jamestown. By year’s end, she’d become the princess who cradled Capt. John Smith’s head in her arms, saving the ...

Pocahontas was barely 21 years old when fact began to give way to fiction. Brought to England in 1616 by the Virginia Company, which desperately needed support for its faltering colony, the Powhatan ...