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Excerpt from Paintings by David G. Blythe, 1815-1865; Drawings by Joseph Boggs Beale, 1841-1926: April 7 to May 7, 1936
For a few more years he remained in Uniontown, going on tours in spring and summer. He had long planned a panorama (forerunner of the motion picture) of the natural beauties and historical scenes of western Pennsylvania, and every summer a month or more was spent sketching in the mountains. The canvas, several hundred feet long and mounted on rollers, depicted innumerable scenes, to be explained by a lecturer. At the premiere in Uniontown in 1851, the audience was spellbound, and it was recorded that the thunderstorm with which the exhibition closed was so vivid that actually some of the audience hesitated to leave the hall until they were assured that the storm was part of the entertainment only. Blythe and two friends who were backing the venture took the great work on tour, showing it to enthusiastic audiences. Visions of wealth arose; they would go on to Philadelphia, New York, London. But expenses outran receipts; Blythe was penniless, his backers would do no more, and the panorama went through various vicissitudes, finally being cut up and sold as backgrounds for theatrical troupes. For all his work Blythe did not receive a cent. Shortly afterwards he left Uniontown, and for the next eight or ten years resumed his former wandering life.
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