Rossiter's Great Scriptural Pictures of Jeremiah and the Captive Prophets at Babylon

[Albany, New York]: [1860]. Single leaf printed to recto only measuring 14 x 7". A broadside advertising an exhibition of three "scriptural pictures" by Hudson River school artist Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, which, "having been exhibited in the South and West with immense success, are now shown to the public here for the first time." According to one source, these paintings, of Jeremiah and the Captive Prophets at Babylon, Noah, and Miriam, had strong Millenariam themes, and were first exhibited in New York in 1860 (Husch, "Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting", 266). The broadside begins with an announcement of the exhibit, held at Wendell Hall in Albany, followed by newspaper testimonials from other cities in which the paintings were shown. Folding creases, two small tears to lower margin, two one inch tears to upper margin, chip to upper margin. Item #13483

Price: $250.00