Administered by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission P. O. Box 1026 Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17108
Located Governor Printz State Park 2nd & Taylor Streets Tinicum Pennsylvania
Date:
Installed March 23, 1972. Dedicated April 9, 1972
Notes:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
Lindborg, Carl, 1989.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Image on file.
LINDBORG, SCU (Incised, front of base:) JOHAN PRINTZ/GOVERNOR OF NEW SWEDEN/1643-1653/PRINTZ FOUNDED HERE THE FIRST PERM-/ANENT EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT, BUILT/THE FIRST CAPITOL, CHURCH, LAW COURT/HIS "INSTRUCTIONS" FROM QUEEN CHRIST-/INA BECAME THE FIRST CONSTITUTION/AND HIS COAT OF ARMS THE FIRST LEG-/AL SEAL IN WHAT IS NOW PENNSYLVANIA./HE WAS A/SUPERIOR GOVERNOR, DECISIVE,/FAR-SEEING AND JUST. (On right side of base:) KING CARL XVI GUSTAF OF SWEDEN/CAME HERE ON APRIL 1972 TO CELEBRATE/SWEDISH SETTLEMENT DAY AND THE/BICENTENNIAL OF THE UNITED STATES (On back of monument:) DONOR: GUSTAV NYSELIUS/CARL LINDBORG, SCULPTOR. signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
Standing portrait of Johan Printz as he takes his first step on Pennsylvania soil. He is dressed in knee breeches and a thigh-length jacket. In his proper left arm he holds the twenty-eight articles of government from Queen Christina describing how he should rule the small settlement of Swedes who lived on the site now known as Governor Printz Park.
