Engraving

Description

Wood engraving of Shakers dancing in the second meetinghouse at Mount Lebanon. This is another iteration of the well-known image featuring the sisters in three rows at left, and the brothers at right, with a well-dressed woman seated on a bench at left foreground, and another bench with a top hat and stick or cane at right foreground. On the walls behind are coats, hats and bonnets hanging on pegs flanked by windows.

Notes

Library of Congress also has this print: https://www.loc.gov/item/2014649005/