Mural Study, The Arrival of Governor Printz

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Mural Study, The Arrival of Governor Printz
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Mural Study, The Arrival of Governor Printz

Datenot dated
MediumOil on composite pressed paper-wood board
Dimensions9 5/8 × 43 3/8 in. (24.4 × 110.2 cm)
frame: 12 1/8 × 46 1/8 in. (30.8 × 117.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Joseph Bancroft, 1942
Object number1942-11
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Label TextThis was a sketch for a mural painted for the George Gray School in Wilmington, depicting the arrival at Fort Christina of Johan Printz, the governor of New Sweden from 1643 to 1653. The scene was also used as the central design for a commemorative postage stamp in 1938, celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of the first Swedish and Finnish settlements in America.

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