Philadelphia Public Art @philart.net
Artist: Wheeler Williams
Settling of the Seaboard
Wheeler Williams,
1942
* Quotes from William Penn
and
Alexander Whitaker
* group of people,
standing,
sitting,
trees,
turkey
* inscription:
front:
I have great love and regard towards
you and desire to win and gain your love
and friendship by a kind, just and peacable
life and the people I send are of the same
mind and shall in all things behave
themselves accordingly.
-William Penn to the Indians
If we consider the almost miraculous
beginning and continuance of this
plantation we must needs confess that God
hath opened this passage unto us and led
us by the hand unto this work.
-Aleaxander Whitaker
back:
We yield unfeigned thanks and and praise
for the return of seed-time and harvest
for the increase of the ground
and the gathering in of the fruits thereof
and for all other blessings
of Thy merciful providence
bestowed upon this nation and people
-The Book of Common Prayer
A Land is Settled
* South Terrace Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.
Kelly Drive, past Boat House Row.
* 39.972440,-75.190360 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's William Penn page
+wikipedia.org's Alexander Whitaker page
+ushistory.org's Samuel Memorial tour page
