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Views of a cemetery [graphic].
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Views of a cemetery [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date
[ca. 1855]
Physical Description
2 prints: lithograph, tinted; 10 x 30 cm.(7.75 x 11.5 in.)
Description
Shows funeral processions passing a man reclining on a hilltop adorned with mausoleums, possibly in Laurel Hill Cemetery, and arriving at a plot enclosed by a circular fence at an unidentified cemetery. Views include a minister; an open grave; grave diggers; mourners; horse-drawn carriages; and a distant view of a body of water. One view also contains an ornate border including a crucifix, sepulchral monuments, and vaults. Vaults inscribed "Anderson"; "Sylancliff"; and "Holmes."
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 264
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Subject
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Funeral rites & ceremonies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Funeral processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gravediggers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Cemeteries [(7)1322.F.458b; P.2277.27]
Accession number
(7)1322.F.458b
P.2277.27
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