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- "Banvard's Great Paintings of Jerusalem and the Holy Land," 1853-1854 - John Banvard entertained hundreds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century Americans with his panorama of the Holy Land. This massive mural -- painted after his trip to the Near East -- depicted historic and religious scenes of Jerusalem and Palestine. For two years, from 1852-1854, audiences in New York City's Georama Theater marveled as each tableau on the canvas scrolled past.
- 1853-1854
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"Banvard's Great Paintings of Jerusalem and the Holy Land," 1853-1854
John Banvard entertained hundreds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century Americans with his panorama of the Holy Land. This massive mural -- painted after his trip to the Near East -- depicted historic and religious scenes of Jerusalem and Palestine. For two years, from 1852-1854, audiences in New York City's Georama Theater marveled as each tableau on the canvas scrolled past.