Eight pale-skinned men and thirteen brown-skinned, indigenous Lenape men, women, and a baby gather on a grassy field close to us in this horizontal painting. The white men are cleanshaven and have puffy gray, shoulder-length hair. Most wear black tricorn hats, and they all wear coats, vests, and pants in shades of tan, gray, red, brown, and white. An unfurled scroll in the middle of this group reaches from shoulder to calf, and most of the word “Pennsylvania” is legible there. Two bareheaded men kneel in front of the Lenape, holding a bolt of red cloth. The Lenape men wear black, red, and…
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Edward Hicks (American, 1780 - 1849)

c. 1840/1844

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61.7 x 76.5 cm (24 5/16 x 30 1/8 in.) ; framed: 67.6 x 82.9 x 5.1 cm (26 5/8 x 32 5/8 x 2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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