Politician, writer, chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania as of 1775

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Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching by J. Cawse, 1799.

Garden of John Penn, St James's Park: A charity fair for Charing Cross Hospital. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf, 1830.

Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching after J. Cawse, 1799.

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John Penn

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Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching after J. Cawse, 1799.

Garden of John Penn, St James's Park: A charity fair for Charing Cross Hospital. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf, 1830.

Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching by J. Cawse, 1799.