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A famous image of the English missionary John Williams being killed (he was later eaten, as well) while working in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), northeast of New Caledonia.
The scene is reminiscent of the popular images of the Death of Captain Cook, with Rev. Williams fleeing from natives and being hacked down on the beach. In fact, Cook was the first European recorded to have visited Erromango, the island where Williams was killed.
Williams was not the last missionary killed at Erromango; in total, six missionaries were killed on the island.
The print was made with the Baxter printing method, developed by its namesake George Baxter, in the 1820s and '30s. Baxter prints are made from multiple matrixes, each printing an oil color that is registered with the other images to render the whole composition. In this way, Baxter prints are like chromolithography, though they tend to produce images that are even more like original paintings than the latter method.
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