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Penn's Treaty with the Indians

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Voltaire, in "The History of the Quakers" in The Works of Voltaire (1762), Vol 13, as translated by Tobias George Smollett, Thomas Francklin, et al., later published as "The Religion of the Quakers", in The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version with Notes (1901), Vol. 33, as modernized by William
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The muscular Indians are dressed and decorated in green, red and white, with feather headdresses, partly shaved heads, beaded armbands and headbands, and large earrings. They lean forward, keen to see what they are being offered. Original items of clothing that were used as a model for portraying
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The Europeans are shown in more sombre clothing typical of 1771, in shades of browns and greys, rather than the more decorated styles of 1682; Penn is picked out by his white neckcloth. The Europeans stand back, reversing their contemporary keenness to acquire land from the Indians. The crowd
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For the image of William Penn, West copied a relief portrait made from memory by Silvanius Bevan several years after Penn's death. West had no models for the Indian subjects, so used sketches of sculptures, adding Indian artefacts, such as beaded moccasins, arm bands, and bags, and clay pipes.
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includes West's own father (the elderly gentleman with white hair, third to left of Penn) and his half brother Thomas West (behind Penn). West also added brick-built buildings from his own memories of Pennsylvania, even though they had not been built by 1682.
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scene. The painting presents an idealized picture of interaction between the Indians and the Europeans, glossing over recent difficulties such as the
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The tree itself also became a subject for later paintings and prints, although it fell during a storm on 3 March 1810. The land is now
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The painting was purchased at auction by Joseph Harrison and brought to Philadelphia. On Harrison's death, it was given to the
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The crowd is gathered around a white cloth which draws the eye at the centre of the composition, like a campfire or the
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William Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pennsylvania in North America, 1681
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The peace between the Lenape Turtle Clan and Penn's successors would endure for over 70 years, until the
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but developed as a painter of historic subjects in London, where he was the second president of the
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The canvas measures 190 centimetres (75 in) high by 274 centimetres (108 in) wide.
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General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
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and the United States National Museum of Independence. It has been exhibited at the
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Picturing imperial power: colonial subjects in eighteenth-century British painting
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Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783
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in June 1775, with the image reversed, under the longer title
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Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
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in 1744, but harking back instead to Penn's wish for peace.
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Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)
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The treaty William Penn entered into was remarked upon by
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was established in the early 1770s with his painting of
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family. Also like Thomas Penn, he later turned to the
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Native Americans in the painting can be found in the
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