Identifier: historicalaccoun01etti (find matches)
Title: An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Etting, Frank M. (Frank Marx)
Subjects: Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d appropriately, and displayed between the likeness of the Grantorand the commemorative painting of the Treaty which made it feasible. The celebrated Non-Importation Resolutions of October 2oth, 1765, signedby three hundred and seventy-five of our merchants and traders (fac-simile),constitutes an appropriate pendant in juxtaposition with the portrait of thesovereign whose authority over Pennsylvania and her sister colonies, it wasdestined to form the entering wedge to sever. Among all the acquisitions to the National Museum, no one is ofmore intrinsic value than the portrait of William Penn, taken at atime when the Founder of Pennsylvania was in the full maturity ofhis powers. The existence of such a painting, though mentioned in arare county history of Durham, England, seems to have been entirely 1 Through the active exertions of Col. John W. Forney, who has always been thekind friend of the Museum, an original portrait of Charles II., by Lely, has beenloaned by Mr. William Thompson.
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