[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1832
name: label: lithographer
content: Kennedy & Lucas
label: artist
content: Rider, Alexander
label: lithographic artist
content: Bridport, Hugh
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print depicts a large revival or camp 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 gathered in the foreground. Some people are sitting on benches, while others are kneeling on the ground or standing listening to a preacher. The title is cut off. In the upper right corner, a newspaper clipping describing a revival meeting is affixed to the print.
label: Description
content: This print was produced by Kennedy & Lucas and Hugh Bridport. from a drawing 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.
label: Description
content: William B. Lucas was a Philadelphia gilder who owned a looking glass and print shop. He established what was said to be the first commercial lithography firm in Philadelphia in 1828. Within a few months another gilder, David Kennedy, became a partner in the firm. The company continued until Lucas died in 1833. 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.
label: Description
content: Hugh Bridport (1794-1870) was a London-born engraver, lithographer, portrait painter and architect, trained at the Royal Academy. In 1816, he joined his brother George in Philadelphia, where they successfully establish a business as artists as well as a drawing academy that operated for 6 years. Bridport was a founding member of the Franklin Institute, where he taught architectural drawing until 1833. He worked in the late 1820’s in the lithography trade with Kennedy & Lucas and other Philadelphia firms such as C. G. Childs and M. E. D. Brown. He became a US citizen in 1834.and exhibited paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Artist's Fund Society. In the 1860 census he is listed as a "gentleman" with a personal estate worth $15,000 and in the 1870 census, before he died, he was listed as a merchant.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Communication, newspapers
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Music
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Religion
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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.60.2957
label: catalog number
content: 60.2957
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 12 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 46.99 cm