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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 Pennsya. 1661 [graphic] : the only treaty that never was broken.
Publisher New York: Lith. & Pub. By N. Currier, 152 Nassau St., cor. of Spruce
Publisher NY. New York. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 32 x 47 cm. (12.75 x 18.5 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 Printed below image: 256.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 860
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Portraits.
Indians of North America.
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Penn [P.9492]
Accession number P.9492