"The Treaty in Shackamaxon & Its Representations in British & American Art" introduces students to visual representations of William Penn the so-called "Treaty with the Indians." It asks students to examine the ideological function that successive versions of the treaty served in both European and American contexts.

1. The Treaty in
Shackamaxon & Its
Representations in British &
American Art
Tamanend, Penn, and the Politics of Memory

4. Map of Lenape languages and tribes. Map terms
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5. Thomas Holme. A Mapp of Ye Improved Part of Pensilvania in America, Divided Into Countyes, Townships and Lotts (1687)

6. Thomas Holme. A Mapp of Ye Improved Part of Pensilvania in America, Divided Into Countyes, Townships and Lotts (1687)

7. Thomas Holme. A
Mapp of Ye Improved
Part of Pensilvania in
America, Divided Into
Countyes, Townships
and Lotts (1687)

9. Benjamin West. Penn's Treaty with the Indians. 1771-72. Oil on canvas. 191.8 x 273.7 cm. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Gift of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The Jose

10. Benjamin West. Penn's Treaty with the Indians. 1771-72. Oil on canvas. 191.8 x 273.7 cm. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Gift
of Mrs. Sarah Harrison (The Joseph Harrison, Jr. Collection). 1878.1.10

11. G. Gallina and Giuseppe Erba Odescalchi after Benjamin West. William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Il costume antico e moderno, vol. 1, following p. 362 (Milan,
1820). etching, aquatint, a coloring. 15.6 cm. x 22.1 cm.

12. Penn Society Obelisk. 1827. Inscription: TREATY GROUND/of/WILLIAM PENN/and the/INDIAN NATIVES/1682/UNBROKEN FAITH

13. Nicholas Gevelot. William Penn's Treaty with the
Indians, 1682, Capitol Rotunda, above north door.
1827. Sandstone. Credit: Architect of the Capitol

14. Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom. ca. 1834. oil on canvas. 74.5 x 90.1 cm. National Gallery of Art. Gift of Edgar Williams and
Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 1980.62.15

15. Edward Hicks (1780–1849). Penn's Treaty with the Indians. c. 1830-1840. oil on canvas 447.802 mm x 600.202 mm. Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston. B.77.46.

16. Constantino Brumidi (1805-1880). William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians from the Frieze of American History (https://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapitol/sets/72157627

17. Plate. Staffordshire, England. Imported by Rowland & Marcellus Company between 1893-1937.

18. A.C. Michael. William Penn’s Treaty with the
Indians. In Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, This
Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
(New York: George H. Doran, 1917), opp. 268

21. Hess-Bright Ball Bearings Advertisement (1918)