Live Auction 5473Fashion through the Ages
A PRINTED HANDKERCHIEF
Lot 67

A PRINTED HANDKERCHIEF

ENGLISH, 1824

Closed2 December 2010

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GBP 875

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A PRINTED HANDKERCHIEF
ENGLISH, 1824
printed in sepia with the Friends Meeting House, and dated 4th September, 1824, Philadelphia, in commemoration of the peaceful settlement of Pennsilvania and of the friendly welcome with which the first settlers were received by the native Indians..., showing the dates of William Penn and the encounter of his party with the native Americans
14.5 x 13ins. (37 x 33cms.)

Specialist note


The scenes were taken from John Hall's (1739 - 1797) engraving after the 1772 painting of this subject by Benjamin West (1738 - 1820), now in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Bed and window curtains in the same design and color were in the 1788 sale of the furnishings of Solitude, the Philadelphia home of John Penn, Jr., grandson of William. Another textile in this design in the collection is printed in red. Dilys E. Blum, from The Fine Art of Textiles: The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), p. 33.