Old Almshouse Where Evangeline Found Gabriel, for "Harper's Weekly"
After Joseph Pennell American
Not on view
Pennell designed this print to illustrate a periodical article titled: "The Bicentenary of Philadelphia" and it shows an old cottage with a low extension next to a garden where an old woman knits. The title evokes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline" (1847), a poem that describes the separation of Evangeline and Gabriel on their wedding day. The story dramatizes the 1847 expulsion of French Acadian settlers from Acadie (now Nova Scotia, Canada) in 1755 after their refusal to forsake their Catholic faith and swear allegiance to the British Crown.