William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he Founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America, 1681

Artist John Hall (American, 1739 - 1797)

After Benjamin West (American, 1738 - 1820)

Portfolio/SeriesO'Connor/Yeager Collection

Date1775

MediumEngraving and etching with hand coloring

DimensionsSheet: 19 3/8 x 24 13/16 in. (49.2 x 63 cm)

Credit LinePartial gift and purchase from John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager

Object number86.690

Collections

ClassificationsWork on Paper

Object NameEngraving and Etching

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Eighteenth

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Inscribedbottom margin: John Boydell, excudit 1775

Exhibition HistoryLooking at Who We Are: The Palmer at 50, Palmer Museum of Art, September 23 – December 18, 2022; From Your Town to Ours: Pennsylvania Prints from the O'Connor-Yeager Collection Revisted, Palmer Museum of Art, June 4 - August 11, 2013; Celebrating Forty Years of Gifts: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, September 25, 2012 – January 20, 2013; Making History, Palmer Museum of Art, June 17 - August 30, 1997; Pennsylvania Prints from the Collection of John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, January 13 – March 30, 1980.ProvenanceRalph M. Yeager and John C. O'ConnorPublished ReferencesGroce and Wallace, The New York Historical Society Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, Yale, 1979, p. 285, p. 674. Hansen, J.W., Pennsylvania prints from the Collection of John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager: lithographs, engravings, aquatints, and watercolors from the Tavern Restaurant, University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; distributed by Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980, cat. no. 3.