Sharp Shinned Hawk Sept 6 1834 Falco Velac Wilson Plans and Views Mitchell relied heavily on maps

Mitchell relied heavily on maps of New France by prominent French cartographers Jean-Jacques Bellin and Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville

Charles and Son SMITH (fl

AS SURVEYED ACCORDING TO ORDER IN THE YEARS 1736 & 1737" [London: 1747]

but they also explored overland in three groups

It played an important role in 1802 as the site of a conference between Americans and the Choctaw tribe for the construction of what became the Natchez Trace

Sharp Shinned Hawk Sept 6 1834 Falco Velac Wilson Plans and Views Mitchell relied heavily on mapsWILLIAM POPE (British Canadian, 1811 1902) Sharp Shinned Hawk Sept 6 1834 Falco Velac Wilson Pen and ink and watercolor Signed W. P lower right Paper size: 17 x 12 in. Provenance The artists family and thence by descent. Exhibited: Simcoe Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, Birds of a Feather, 3 31 May 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Eva Brook Donly Museum, May 7 June 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, 4 August 3 September 1989