Camp Meeting by Alexander Rider
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1832
name: label: maker
content: Rider, Alexander
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white drawing depicts a large revival meeting, with tents in the background and a large wooden pulpit in the foreground. Camp meetings were a popular form of Protestant worship throughout the 19th century. Lasting several days, these open-air events often involved ecstatic communal prayer. Hundreds and even thousands came from miles around for preaching and worship, and to enjoy the festival-like atmosphere. A large crowd is depicted as gathered in the foreground. Some people are sitting on benches, while others kneel on the ground or stand listening to a preacher.
label: Description
content: This drawing is not dated but was produced by Alexander Rider, Alexander Rider was a German or Swiss born artist, colorist and engraver. He is believed to have arrived in the United States in the early 1800s and worked for the next two decades in Philadelphia as a book illustrator, miniature and portrait artist and painter specializing in historical themes. By 1830 he had begun doing lithographic prints for Kennedy and Lucas. He continued working in printing in the 1840s and produced plates for a book on American natural history. This drawing was produced into lithographs which are in the collection (DL.60.2957 and Dl.60.2961).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Dancing
label: Subject
content: Music
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Religion
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Morality & Religious Prints
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2960
label: catalog number
content: 60.2960
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 15 1/2 in x 17 in; 39.37 cm x 43.18 cm