#Thomas Penn

[prairie-tales]

'William Penn’s Treaty With The Indians'.

Benjamin West, 1771-2.

The following notes & quotes were taken and transcribed from Andrew Graham Dixon’s ‘Art of America’, episode 1.

The official history of colonised America [in the 18th & 19th century] would be a selectively edited account that glorified the building of gleaming new buildings in cities like Philadelphia, but it conveniently ignored the grim reality of how it was actually done. One of the functions of art in America then was to be a part of a cover-up, and a chief cover-up artist was a painter called Benjamin West.

West was a Quaker, born in Pennsylvania and America’s first internationally famous artist. ‘William Penn’s Treaty With The Indians’ was one of his most celebrated works, yet it also “pulses with the energy of a dark secret”. The painting was created to frame the history of Pennsylvania and the settlement of its capital city Philadelphia, “to frame it as orderly, dignified, just, compassionate and tolerant…"

West said that the painting depicts "the civilisation of the savage". On the left hand side of the group is William Penn, founder of Philadelphia presenting the Indians with a treaty. However, taking centre stage is a bolt of white cloth held by a generic figure of a trader, “an image that exactly recalls the adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ” and representing the notion that “the god of free trade transformed noble savages into civilised men, effortlessly absorbing them into the republic, a sanitised version of American history". The painting soon became the classic image of ‘the bloodless colonisation of America’ …. but it is propaganda, a blatant lie.

William Penn may indeed have looked kindly on the local tribes, but this painting was commissioned* some 50 years after his death, by which time the colonists and native Indians were locked in a bitter war. This was a war marked, on the British side, by all kinds of appalling skulduggery. On one occasion in 1763 during supposed negotiations for peace, the British representatives handed to the Indians a pile of blankets that they’d taken from their own small pox hospital. This was an early example of germ warfare and proved horribly effective. It certainly gives a really unpleasant twist, an ironic twist, to that bolt of white cloth in the centre of West’s painting.

The painting’s Wikipedia page says it was commissioned by Thomas Penn - William Penn’s son - in 1770 or 1771. Also mentioned is the speculation by some historians that Penn Jr. may have fraudulently created an agreement with a Native American tribe regarding territory and then forced them to vacate.

ADD INFO RE THE TREATY & WILLIAM PENN.

[tilos-tagebuch]

🎧 Funkwellen aus dem Exil: ”Chinas Null-Covid-Politik artet aus!”

Die Null-Covid-Politik in China stößt mittlerweile an ihre Grenzen. Trotz Protesten und Ausschreitungen setzt Peking seinen harten Kurs fort. Mit welcher Begründung das geschieht und wie lange China diese Politik höchstens noch durchhalten kann, kommentiert Dr. Karin Kneissl. In dieser Folge spricht zudem der Finanz- und Wirtschaftsanalytiker Thomas Penn, der die "Funkwellen aus dem Exil" demnächst gemeinsam mit Dr. Kneissl weiterführen wird.

[tvcartoonme]

Gossip girl 2007 six seasons

Gossip girl 2021 two seasons

[gibson-g1rl]

boyfriend(s) reveal ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

@pearlzier

[buuuuuuuu3]

[ohmystarrynight]

I am fighting the feminine urge to draw fanart of the starlet divorce au (cue 'not strong enough' by boygenius)

I think that would be a huge slay… but alas I’ve nothing more to give for that au atm.

However I DO have some more Penn content so here u go

[dammitcameron]

Dad and the cat he said he didn’t want:

Dharma & Greg Season 1 Episode 20 The Cat's Out Of The Bag

[xo-jocii-xo]

Matthew gray gubler, Johnny Depp, Thomas Gibson, adam rodriguez, Ryan reynolds ,Penn badgley, Pedro Pascal, keanu reeves, Oscar Isaac, Ryan gosling, robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Chris pratt, and Paul rudd can have it all day all night from the counter top to the kitchen sink, from the bed to the toilet seat, unprotected, raw, sloppy, rough, violent, till the walls peel off, till the bed breaks till the hinges unscrew from the door, till the house collapses in.

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Victoria Pedretti!

[closetofcuriosities]

Licorice Pizza - 2019 - Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

"GROWING UP, RUNNING AROUND, AND FALLING IN LOVE IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY"

[camyfilms]

EASY A 2010

Perhaps you should embroider a red A on your wardrobe, you abominable tramp.

[classicgirlatheart]

Leonardo DiCaprio is current filming the PTA's untitled new film on LA 🇺🇸💗🙌

[lea-heartscxiv]

Emily esta siendo alimentada por alguien que no es de su familia, ni si quiera es ranchero.

William le esta dando de comer a Emily, estuvo esperando a que llegara alguien para darle de comer, pero al ver que nadie venía ...

Qué dónde esta Thomas?

Mirad debajo de la linea de corte y tendréis la solución

Ya que el único adulto que llegó fue Thomas y se quedo sin hacer nada, solo mirando a Walker ( el perrito) ...

[blogdorogerinho]

Críticas — O Leitor (2008), Licorice Pizza (2021), Novidades no Amor (2009), Segredos de Um Escândalo (2023)

Namoradas mais velhas Na Alemanha do pós-guerra, um adolescente de 15 anos se relaciona com uma mulher de 36 anos, cuja primeira experiência sexual o traumatizou pela vida inteira. Michael Berg (David Kross) estava tão hipnotizado por aquela cobradora de bonde a ponto de ignorar os colegas de escola, mesmo no dia do seu aniversário. Enquanto isso, a taciturna Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet) era…

[ohmystarrynight]

Here's a what if: What if Penn, Thomas' driver from your not human au, met Thomas from your Human AU. What would happen if this somehow happened?

HELLO GUYS I’m still alive still alive anyway it would probably involve a bone crushing hug and a LOT of cheek pinching. You think Annie and Clarabel are bad they got nothing on Penn

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