William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pensylvania in North America 1681 (after Benjamin West)
John Hall (Wivenhoe 1739 – London 1797)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1775
Materials
Paper
Measurements
47.5 cm (h)61 cm (w)
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 1429820
Summary
Print, engraving, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pensylvania in North America 1681 (after Benjamin West) by John Hall ( Wivenhoe 1739 – London 1797). William Penn in Quaker costume stands to right of centre, his right hand extended to a group of standing and baby seated left foreground. In background, houses, crouching Indians. To his left stand colonists in cloaks and hats. Indian woman and ?? being built (one inscribed. WP/1681)
Provenance
probably bought with D/14, as marketed by Boydell, labled on back "Allens Depositories...Miss Brandreth".
Makers and roles
John Hall (Wivenhoe 1739 – London 1797), engraver (printmaker) after Benjamin West (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738 - London 1820), artist John Boydell I (Dorrington 1719 – Cheapside, London 1804), engraver and publisher