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ARTIST: Charles Philip Wilbraham (U.K, 1810-1879)

TITLE OF WORK: The Shakers at prayer

TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor

DATE: 1839

DATE DETAILS: approx.

COMMENTS: From his album "Sketches from nature in America". He was stationed in Quebec and travelled across the United States for a year. Wilbraham writes about the religious rites of a Shaker settlement in New

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New Hampshire

DANCE FORM: whirling

KEYWORDS: religion, Shaker, worship