John Banvard's Three Mile Canvas

 

From the Kinja archive. Panorama of the Mississippi. Made him a rich man. I know these panoramas from “All Pieces of a River Shore” by R.A. Lafferty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banvard

https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-folly-of-john-banvard.html

https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/13/John-Banvards-Three-Mile-Panorama/

https://unrememberedhistory.com/2017/06/06/three-mile-painting-the-mammoth-panorama-of-the-mississippi-river/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty