[Barroom dancing] – Vintage Print
![[Barroom dancing], [ca. 1820] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/19440c856c0f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Barroom dancing] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A rough watercolor sketch of a dance in a country tavern, the scene stands out for the almanac hanging on the wall, which gives a date of about 1820. The drawing is tied to an 1819 oil painting, Country Frolic and Dance, and it bears a close resemblance to a George Lehman lithograph of about 1835 to 1836 titled Dance in a Country Tavern, so it likely records a popular subject that artists returned to over many years. Taverns of this period were common gathering places where fiddle music and dancing drew neighbors together after work or at local celebrations. The sketch is valued for its informal record of rural social life in the early nineteenth-century United States.
| Created / published | [ca. 1820] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1830-1840. |
| 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 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,457 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218413 |
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