Lesson 6 Document 17
TITLE: [Barroom dancing]
CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Krimmel, no.
1 (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-4548 (color film copy
transparency)
LC-USZC4-1388 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-94848 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Dance in a country tavern, showing people
drinking and dancing while African American man plays fiddle.
MEDIUM: 1 drawing : watercolor.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [ca. 1820]
CREATOR: Krimmel,
John Lewis, 1786-1821, artist.
NOTES: Sketch associated with 1819 oil painting Country frolic and dance, oil on canvas. This drawing more nearly resembles the print Dance in a country tavern lithographed by George Lehman, ca. 1835-36. Date from almanac hanging on wall. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: The African-American mosaic, a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture / Debra Newman Ham, ed. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1993. Published in: John Lewis Krimmel : an artist in Federal America / Milo M. Naeve. Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, c1987. Published in: John Lewis Krimmel : genre artist of the early republic / Anneliese Harding. Winterthur, DE : A Winterthur book, 1994.
SUBJECTS: Hotels
& taverns--1820.
Dance--1820.
United
States
FORMAT: Watercolors American 1830-1840.
