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far left, Hicks’ fellow Quaker William Penn displays the

peace treaty signed with the Lenape tribe (an event that had

received treatment in academic American art). The decora-

tive handling of the composition and its disregard for

traditional perspective contributes to its visual immediacy;

but it is in the gestures of the children, reaching out loving-

ly to the wild creatures in their midst, that Hicks establishes

the link between natural innocence and peace.

Figure 27.19 SARAH ANNE WHITTINGTON LANKFORD, probably Mary Evans, and possibly others,

Baltimore Albion Quilt, ca. 1850. Appliqué, 7 ft. 8ft. 3 in. At the top of the quilt is pictured an

American war memorial and a schematic rendering of the newly completed United States Capitol.

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