2-714-154 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Peter Williamson, Remarkable for his Captivity & Sufferings', 1821. Portrait of Scottish memoirist Peter Williamson (1730-1799) 'habited in the dress of a Delaware North American Indian'. Williamson was kidnapped and taken to North America at an early age. On his return he toured Scotland and England in the guise of a 'Red Indian' and called himself 'Indian Peter'. From "Wonderful Characters: Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons of Every Age and Nation", Vol. II, by Henry Wilson. [J. Robins and Co. Albion Press, London, 1821]