Frontispiece to Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America], 1702
Frontispiece to Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America], 1702
Frontispiece to Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America], 1702
Description
Description
Engraving depicts an exchange between Native Americans and colonial settlers of New Sweden on the Delaware River. The artist, Thomas Campanious Holm, had never been to America, but created the scene based on the manuscripts of his grandfather, Peter Lindstrom, an engineer and cartographer in the colony.
Preferred citation: Frontispiece to Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America], 1702. In RBK(v) HIS .C18. Rare Book Collection. Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, Delaware. [URL]
Credit line: Courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society.
Physical Location
Physical Location
Delaware Historical Society Research Library, 505 N. Market St., Wilmington, DE 19801 302-655-7161 www.dehistory.org
Frontispiece to Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania [Description of the Province of New Sweden, Now Called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America], 1702
