[William Penn by Charles Wilson Peale]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[William Penn by Charles Wilson Peale]
ca. 1845
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 5/8 × 2 5/8 in. (9.2 × 6.7 cm) (1/4 plate)
Case: 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3/4 in. (12.1 × 9.5 × 1.9 cm)
Purchase
1969.0201.0025
Inscriptions Typed on paper attached to velvet pad in case: Photo of original \ Portrait of \ William Penn, [handwritten] by Peale, \ [typed] painted from life. \ [handwritten] 1644 to 1718
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 626
Entry 626 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Rare & valuable dag. of Wm. Penn. 1/4 size. Supposedly taken from a Peale painting of Penn. (Probably by the father, Chas. Wilson Peale, rather than his son, Rembrandt Peale.) Shows Wm. Penn., full figure, standing leaning on a rock, holding papers of land grant with seal of English King Chas. II. Penn was granted land now comprising Pennsylvania, because crown owed his father $80,000. He came to America to make peace with Indians and smoked pipe of peace with them, under the Treaty tree, all of which is shown in dag. He also bought waterfront land of Indians at full value where he built city of Phila. He never broke treaty with Indians & his colony had peace with them .This fine dag. came from Mrs. Lewis of Narberth or Merion, Pa., a suburb of Phila. It was handed down for generations in her husband’s family. Cost $18.30 from Emerson of Germantown, Phila. Pa. She said Lewis family originally came from Westchester, Pa., and settled later nearer Phila. They had this dag. since the 1840’s.
Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 626
Entry 626 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Rare & valuable dag. of Wm. Penn. 1/4 size. Supposedly taken from a Peale painting of Penn. (Probably by the father, Chas. Wilson Peale, rather than his son, Rembrandt Peale.) Shows Wm. Penn., full figure, standing leaning on a rock, holding papers of land grant with seal of English King Chas. II. Penn was granted land now comprising Pennsylvania, because crown owed his father $80,000. He came to America to make peace with Indians and smoked pipe of peace with them, under the Treaty tree, all of which is shown in dag. He also bought waterfront land of Indians at full value where he built city of Phila. He never broke treaty with Indians & his colony had peace with them .This fine dag. came from Mrs. Lewis of Narberth or Merion, Pa., a suburb of Phila. It was handed down for generations in her husband’s family. Cost $18.30 from Emerson of Germantown, Phila. Pa. She said Lewis family originally came from Westchester, Pa., and settled later nearer Phila. They had this dag. since the 1840’s.
