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contemporaries, the painting's "moral" echoed the words of the Roman poet Horace, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ("It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country"). West's Mohawk warrior also reminded his British viewers that American colonials and their Indian allies had supported the British during the French and Indian War. Seated next to the figure of William Johnson, an American known for his work with Indians but not actually present at the battle for Quebec (Johnson wears Indian leggings), this warrior demonstrates West's deep sympathy for colonial causes. Painted at a moment of high tension between Britain and the American colonies, West's image brings together Johnson and the Mohawk as embodiments of New World sympathy, naturalness, and virtue. West presented the colonists, and their Indian allies, as valued partners that the British could not afford to lose. The following year, West again turned to history in order to comment on the present. In William Penn's Treaty with the Indians in 1683 , 1771-72 , West commemorated an encounter in 1673 when William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania colony, negotiated one of several land exchanges with the Leni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians (fig. 4.35). The French philosopher Voltaire would later describe Penn's treaty as the "only treaty" between Europeans and Indians that was "never infring'd." The painting divides into two halves: the lush and slightly darker world of the Native Americans on the right, and the ordered world of Penn and his circle of Quaker merchants on the left. At the center of the canvas, an unrolled bolt of cloth links the two parties. The viewer can barely see the text of Penn's treaty in the hands of the man to Penn's side . The painting focuses , instead, on the cream-colored cloth. Anthropologically, the cloth illustrates the process of diplomacy with Native tribes- the drawing up of a contract being followed by an exchange of goods, demonstrating the honorable intentions of both parties. At a political level, however, the cloth suggests something else. The fabric is linked visually to the trunk below it, to the second trunk in 4-35 BENJAMIN WEST , W illiam Penn's Treaty with theindians in 1683, 1771-2. Oil on canvas, 75½in x ro7¾ in (191.7 x 273 cm). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. ART I s Ts p A I NT I N G I 127 The White House (1754-1825), designer of the city of Washington , originally imagined the "President's House," as it was then called, as a huge European-style palace. L'Enfant's 1791 plan for Washington called for a building five times the size of the present White House. After George Washington dismissed L'Enfant for insubordination , he chose James Hoban (c. 1762-1831), an Irish-born architect, to design the President's House. Hoban envisaged a traditional Georgian-style structure, with a projecting bay on the south fa
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