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leading to the criminal court. For his first theme, he selected the landing of Leonard Calvert and the Maryland colonists, at the mouth of the Potomac in the spring of 1634.
a squaw and a brave test with eager curi osity the strange new implements. In the third panel the artist has indicated the determination of the colonists to make their
Copyright, iqoj, J. IV'. Schite/tr THE EDICT OF TOLERATION, 1649 By Edwin H. Blashfield
Copyright, lt)Oj, J. IV. Schac/cr WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION. 1783 By Edw.n H. Blashfisld Governor Calvert is represented in the central panel in the group, bartering with the friendly tribe of Indians, the Yaocomicos, for the strip of land the colonists received from them in exchange for axes, hoes, and cloth, and on which they founded the city of St. Mary's. The domestic side of Indian life is suggested in another panel in which
home in the new land, in a picture in which a little family group is watching a departing ship. For the subject of his second series, Mr. Turner chose one of the most dramatic incidents in colonial history, the Maryland tea-party, which differed from the historic Boston function in taking place in the
