From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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Broadsheet, 21 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Woodcut illustration on recto, text in double columns on verso. Old folds. Minimal foxing, a few small edge chips, tear in lower left corner not touching text. Very good. Encapsulated between mylar sheets. A very scarce broadside advertisement for an exhibition of "by far the largest panorama ever presented to the public," painted by Walter M. Bayne. Bayne, a landscape painter originally from Britain who came to America sometime around 1840, was most well-known for this panorama of a voyage to Europe "which occupied three years in preparation," and which was regularly exhibited to some acclaim in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Charleston, St. Louis, and Washington D.C. between the years 1847 and 1856. The present broadside advertises the final days of its exhibition at the Odd Fellows' Hall in Washington. The recto, featuring an engraving of a ship crossing the Atlantic, describes the panorama's sections and the logistics of the exhibition. The paintings comprised "magnificent panoramic views of Boston, Its Harbor, Halifax, the Atlantic, River Mersey, Liverpool, London from the Thames, and Both Sides of the River Rhine." It is asserted that in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore alone, more than a quarter million viewed the panorama. The verso contains positive reviews of the exhibition from newspapers in those three cities. It is noted that there are "pamphlets, descriptive of the Panorama, for sale at the door." Quite rare, OCLC records eleven total broadsides or broadsheets advertising the exhibition split among its various dates and locations, as well as examples at Brown and the Library of Congress. We locate few Washington exemplars, and none in this precise state. WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART I, p.242. Seller Inventory # WRCAM57308
Bibliographic Details
Title: A FEW DAYS LONGER! ODD FELLOWS' HALL, ...
Publisher: [Washington]
Publication Date: 1850
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