Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspe

Image Not Available for Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspe
Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspe
Image Not Available for Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspe

Jacques Cartier setting up a cross at Gaspe

Date1883
Illustration Citation"The French Voyageurs," by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1883
MediumGouache on illustration board
Dimensions17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (44.5 x 29.8 cm)
frame: 28 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (73.3 × 55.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
Object number1923-31
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Label TextHoward Pyle depicts the gesture by which the 16th century French mariner Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), who sought a passage through North America to Eastern Asia, established the basis for French claims to Canada. The praying cleric and Cartier's bowed head reflect the author’s note that Cartier told the indigenous people "with pious fraud that the cross was only intended for a beacon."
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