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Guillaume Penn achetant la terre des Sauvages

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Date:

[ca. 1837-1839]

Reference:

R13133-368-9-E, Volume number: 41

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

3986071

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Canadian Historical Prints and Watercolours Collection

Guillaume Penn achetant la terre des Sauvages
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Date(s):

[ca. 1837-1839]

Place:

Paris:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

Firmin Didot Frères,

Extent:

1 print : etching

Language of material:

French

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Image depicts an encounter between a group of settlers, led by Guillaume (William) Penn, and a group of Native Americans in an outdoor setting, at Pennsylvania, 1681. The two groups of men engage in dialogue at the centre of the scene, with a man kneeling in the middle. On the left is a seated Native American woman breastfeeding.
After an original painting by Pennsylvania-born artist Benjamin West commissioned in 1771 by Thomas Penn.

This plate was part of a publication by Roux de Rochelle, who served as French Minister to the United States. His work "Etats-Unis d'Amérique" is a well-known piece of Americana and includes plates depicting a variety of subjects, including Native Americans and early American settlers.
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Copyist (art): Vernier active early 19th century

Artist: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820

Depicted: Penn, William, 1644-1718

Engraver: Montaut, Henri de, born ca. 1825, died 1890 or 1897

Publisher: Roux de Rochelle, 1762-1849

Penn, William, 1644-1718
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General note:

publication: in Roux de Rochelle's "Etats-Unis d'Amérique" (Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs), part of the series "L'Univers; Histoire et description de tous les peuples", first published in 1837.
Item is of unknown provenance, acquired sometime before the initial cataloguing date of 4/3/32 (written on the verso).

Attributions and conjectures:

After the artist Benjamin West.

Original version note:

Original painting by Benjamin West in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Recto, u.c.: ÉTATS-UNIS. ; u.r.: 22 ; l.l.: Vernier del. ; l.c.: Guillaume Penn achetant la terre des Sauvages. ; l.r.: Montaut sc.
Verso, manuscript pencil, u.l.: Roux d. Rochelle ; l.r.: 4/3/32

Related material:

For related Vernier "Etats-Unis" prints, see acc. no.'s 1973-18-254 and R13133-353.
For another print after this image by West, see acc. no. R13133-255.
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Colonization

SUBJ - NATIVES, CULTURE - EVENTS, TREATIES

SUBJ - NATIVES, NON-CANADIAN - U.S. - 1681

U.S., PA., GENERAL
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R13133]

[Consultation 90 Open]

41 Item no. assigned by LAC 354

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright : expired
Credit : Library and Archives Canada, R13133-354

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