Procession of Victuallers: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Color print of a street scene with a procession of men on horseback and a wagon filled wtih band members in the foreground. Behind them are floats of a sailing vessel and houses on wheels and a long line of wagons. The occasion for the procession was "conveying the meat of the stock of exhibition Cattle to Market" on March 15, 1821. Spectators line the street.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date made: n.d.
• artist: Krimmel, John Lewis
• lithographer: Dubois, G.
• Object Name: lithograph
• Object Type: Lithograph
• Measurements: image: 14 in x 23 3/8 in; 35.56 cm x 59.3725 cm
• place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Subject: Livestock
• Subject: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
• Subject: Children
• depicted: Horseback Riding
• Subject: Eating
• Subject: Pets
• Subject: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
• Subject: Wild Animals
• ID Number: DL.60.3773
• catalog number: 60.3773
• Credit Line: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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