Mrs. Howe's baby wrested from her by the indians. (p.15) Indian Anecdotes and Barbarians. Gazette Office: Barbe Mass, 1863. Merc Ncirc Rare E85 .I522 1837 By the late eighteenth century and certainly throughout the nineteenth early engravers and anonymous woodcut artists were creating a sub-genre of illustration for the captivity narrative-one which had its own conventions and symbols, and one which at times could be interchangeable from narrative to narrative. Virtually no illustration was created by an eyewitness in this period-many were crude, violent depictions-"penny dreadful" pieces or caricatures, such as one would see in early American broadside or almanac illustration.