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Creator Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888.
Contributor West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 William Penn's treaty with the Indians.
Title Wm. Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pennsa. 1681. [graphic] : The only treaty that was never broken.
Publisher New York: Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St
Publisher NY. New York. 1845
Date [ca. 1845]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 25 x 35 cm.(9.75 x 13.75 in.)
Description Print after the Benjamin West painting (1771) showing the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, surrounded by his delegates, negotiates with the Delaware Indian chief near a giant elm tree. Crates of goods are sat upon and displayed by the English delegation. Native Americans, including a translator and a woman breast-feeding her baby, participate in and watch the negotiations. Also shows brick residences being built in the background. River depicted on left.
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 859
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Portraits.
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Indians of North America.
Geographic subject Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand colored -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Penn [P.9458]
Accession number P.9458