The Old Plantation
1795 · Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg
Enslaved people dancing and making music beside their cabins, with African instruments and dress. Attributed to a South Carolina slaveholder.
★ 4.3
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The Peaceable Kingdom
1833 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
Hicks was a Quaker preacher and sign-painter who returned to Isaiah's prophecy about sixty times. Penn signs his treaty in the background.
★ 6.3