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William Penn's Ship the WELCOME – Historic Print

William Penn's Ship the WELCOME — historic print
William Penn's Ship the WELCOME. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic print captures William Penn's Ship the WELCOME in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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William Penn's Ship the WELCOME

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The Welcome is the ship William Penn sailed in 1682 with English Quaker settlers bound for his new colony on the Delaware River, so this print ties a single vessel to the founding of Pennsylvania. The record does not give a date or an artist, and its medium is recorded with a question mark, so the print's exact age and maker remain unclear. Still, the subject places it firmly within the colony's early history, and it offers a useful visual reference for anyone studying how the first Quaker voyages were remembered.

Medium1 print : linocut(?).
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ships--Other; BI; Ships--Welcome; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,333 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136675

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