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Creating an Image of Peace
In 1773 English publisher John
Boydell advertised his plan to issue a print of Penn's Treaty.
During the next two years Boydell's employee John Hall engraved
the copper printing plate. The first issue of the print appeared
for sale in June 1775. Hall reversed the image, but the change had
no effect on the popularity of the picture. The original copper
printing plate served to produce copies of the print as late as
1932. "One sett of Hair colour furniture
cotton bed curtains, pattern William Penn's Treaty with the Indians;
three window curtains to match ditto, with Cord, Quakers in America quickly adopted the image of Penn's Treaty as a symbol of their heritage. A rare handkerchief, made about 1824, depicts the Friends Meeting House at Fourth and Arch Streets in Philadelphia along with the Treaty image.
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