| Existing comment:
John Smith's meeting with Chief Powhatan and Pocahontas, gouache painting by J. Sanford Hulme, 1929, probably done as a magazine illustration. Hulme sidestepped the well-known but unsubstantiated episode of the rescue of Captain Smith, selecting instead to depict a meeting between the two leaders that would have occurred in the desperate winter of 1608-09, "The Starving Time," when relations with the Powhatan Indians were so bad that the English could no longer trade for food. |