Religious view showing a backwoods revivalist meeting, probably near Philadelphia. On a rickety covered wood stage used as an altar, a minister enthusiastically preaches, his hands in the air, to a crowd of followers. Four men, two distracted by a nearby horn blower, sit on a bench, on the stage, behind the preacher. The followers, predominately women, kneel, dance, stand, and raise their hands with the spirit in an opening between benches. Others, including an older woman and a mother with child, remain seated on the benches as one man holds a fainting woman and another with a euphoric look leans on a tree. Onlookers, many elegantly-dressed, surround the camp meeting attendees. A few look with repugnance and point while others converse in seeming obliviousness. Also shows, in the foreground, three dogs, two wearing collars. One sniffs another's face in greeting. In the distant background, among clearings in trees, the tents and wagons of the attendees are visible. Camp meetings were usually conducted by Methodists in the early 19th century., Copy-right secured., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 21, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #41., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Bridport, Hugh, 1794-ca. 1868, artist
Date
[ca. 1830]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [5812.F.46]
