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Camp-meeting

Kennedy & Lucas’s Lithographyc. 1829

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, United States

Lithograph by Kennedy & Lucas’s Lithography (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Original printing by Alexander Rider (active 1810–1834); Drawing on stone by Hugh Bridport (1794–c. 1868). The intensity of religious experience common to the Second Great Awakening’s camp meetings is illustrated in this lithograph, which shows a preacher (most likely a Methodist circuit rider) exhorting the attendees.

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  • Title: Camp-meeting
  • Creator: Kennedy & Lucas’s Lithography
  • Date Created: c. 1829
  • Location Created: United States
  • Provenance: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
  • Type: Print
  • Original Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
  • Medium: Lithograph
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