Editing Panoramic painting (section)

==Surviving panoramas==
[[File:Mesdag-Scheveningen.png|thumb|[[Scheveningen]] village, a small section of the [[Panorama Mesdag]] (1880–1881), with false terrain in the foreground.]]

Relatively few of these unwieldy ephemera survive. The oldest known surviving panorama (completed in 1814 by [[:de:Marquard Wocher|Marquard Wocher]]) is on display at [[Schadau Castle]], depicting an average morning in the Swiss town of [[Thun]]. As of today it is owned by the [[Gottfried Keller-Stiftung|Gottfried Keller Foundation]].<ref name="hds-GKS">{{cite web|url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D11909.php|title=Gottfried Keller-Stiftung|publisher=HDS|author=Claude Lapaire|language=de|date=2006-11-14|access-date=2014-12-05}}</ref><ref name="landbote-20111123">{{cite web|url=http://www.landbote.ch/index.php?id=18&tx_vsarticle_pi1%5Barticle%5D=171093|title=Bund greift Gottfried-Keller-Stiftung unter die Arme|publisher=[[Der Landbote]]/sda|language=de|date=2011-11-23|access-date=2014-12-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208015305/http://www.landbote.ch/index.php?id=18&tx_vsarticle_pi1%5Barticle%5D=171093|archive-date=2014-12-08}}</ref> Another rare surviving great-circle panorama is the [[Panorama Mesdag]], completed in 1881 and housed in a purpose-built museum in [[The Hague]], showing the dunes of nearby [[Scheveningen]]. Both of these works are considered of interest as they depict domestic scenes of their times. Depictions of warfare were more common as subject matter, [[Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo|an example]] of which is located at the battlefield of [[Waterloo, Belgium|Waterloo]], depicting the [[Battle of Waterloo|battle]].

An exhibition "Panoramania" was held at the [[Barbican Arts Centre|Barbican]] in the 1980s, with a catalog by [[Ralph Hyde]]. The [[Racławice Panorama]], currently located in [[Wrocław]], [[Poland]], is a monumental (15 × 120&nbsp;metre) panoramic painting depicting the [[Battle of Racławice]], during the [[Kościuszko Uprising]]. A panorama of the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] is on display at [[Mamayev Kurgan]]. Among [[Franz Roubaud]]'s great panoramas, those depicting the [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854)|Siege of Sevastopol]] (1905) and [[Battle of Borodino]] (1911) survive, although the former was damaged during the [[Siege of Sevastopol (1942)]] and the latter was transferred to [[Poklonnaya Gora]]. The [[Pleven Panorama]] in [[Pleven]], [[Bulgaria]], depicts the events of the [[Siege of Plevna]] in 1877 on a 115×15-metre canvas with a 12-meter foreground.

Five large panoramas survive in [[North America]]: the [[Cyclorama of Jerusalem]] (a.k.a. the Panorama of Jerusalem at the Moment of Christ's Death) at St. Anne, outside of [[Quebec City]]; the [[Gettysburg Cyclorama]] depicting [[Pickett's Charge]] during the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] in [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]]; [[John Vanderlyn]]'s Panorama of the Garden and [[Palace of Versailles]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York City]] and the [[Atlanta Cyclorama]], which depicts the [[Battle of Atlanta]], in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. A fifth panorama, also depicting the Battle of Gettysburg, was willed in 1996 to [[Wake Forest University]] in [[North Carolina]]; it is in poor condition and not on public display. It was purchased in 2007 by a group of North Carolina investors who hope to resell it to someone willing to restore it. Only pieces survive of a massive cyclorama depicting the [[Battle of Shiloh]].

In the area of the [[moving panorama]], there are somewhat more extant, though many are in poor repair and the conservation of such enormous paintings poses very expensive problems. The most notable rediscovered panorama in the [[United States]] was the Great Moving Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress, which was found in storage at the [[York Institute]] now the Saco Museum in [[Saco, Maine]], by its former curator Tom Hardiman. It was found to incorporate designs by many of the leading painters of its day, including [[Jasper Francis Cropsey]], [[Frederic Edwin Church]], and [[Henry Courtney Selous]] (Selous was the in-house painter for the original Barker panorama in London for many years.)

The [[St. Louis Art Museum]] owns another moving panorama, which it is conserving in public during the summers of 2011 and 2012. "The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley"—the only remaining of six known Mississippi River panorama paintings—measures {{convert|90|in|m|order=flip|abbr=off}} wide by {{convert|348|ft|m|abbr=off|order=flip}} long and was commissioned {{circa|1850}} by an eccentric amateur archaeologist named Montroville W. Dickeson. [[Judith H. Dobrzynski]] wrote about the restoration in [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303836404577474852766704394 an article in the Wall Street Journal dated June 27, 2012].

In 1918, the [[New Bedford Whaling Museum]] acquired the [http://whalingmuseumblog.org/2010/08/04/revisiting-the-content-and-context-of-russell-and-purrington%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98grand-panorama-of-a-whaling-voyage-round-the-world%E2%80%99/ Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World], created by artists Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington in 1848. At about {{convert|1295|ft|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|8+1/2|ft|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} high, it is one of the largest surviving moving panoramas (although far short of the "Three Miles [4800&nbsp;m] of Canvass" advertised by its creators in their handbills). The museum is currently planning for the [http://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/collections/panorama conservation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328082330/https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/collections/panorama |date=28 March 2017 }} of the Grand Panorama. Although in storage, highlights may be seen on the museum's [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nbwm/sets/72157623043914197/with/4861121110/ Flickr] pages

Another moving panorama was donated to the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University Library in 2005. Painted in Nottingham, England around 1860 by John James Story (d. 1900), it depicts the life and career of the great Italian patriot, [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] (1807–1882). The panorama stands about {{convert|4+1/2|ft|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} high and {{convert|273|ft|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} long, painted on both sides in watercolor. Numerous battles and other dramatic events in his life are depicted in 42 scenes, and the original narration written in ink survives.{{fact|date=August 2021}}

The ''[[Arrival of the Hungarians]]'', a vast cyclorama by [[Árpád Feszty]] ''et al.'', completed in 1894, is displayed at the [[Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park]] in [[Hungary]]. It was made to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the 895 conquest of the [[Carpathian Basin]] by the Hungarians.{{fact|date=August 2021}}

The Cyclorama of Early Melbourne, by artist John Hennings in 1892, still survives albeit having suffered water damage during a fire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/cyclorama-of-early-melbourne#.V7L1jGV4X8s |title=Only Melbourne Cyclorama of Early Melbourne |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2016 |website=Only Melbourne|publisher=Ripefruit Media Co. |access-date=16 August 2016}}</ref> Painted from a panoramic sketch of Early Melbourne in 1842 by Samuel Jackson. It places the viewer on top of the partially constructed Scott's Church on Collins Street in the Melbourne CBD. Commissioned to celebrate 50 years of the city of Melbourne, it was displayed in the Melbourne Exhibition Building for nearly 30 years before being taken into storage. Relatively small for a Cyclorama, it measured {{convert|36|m|ft|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|4|m|ft|abbr=on}} high.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00433b.htm |title=eMelbourne Cycloramas |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2008 |website=eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online |publisher=School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne |access-date=16 August 2016}}</ref>

The [[Biological museum (Stockholm)]], founded by hunter and taxidermist Gustaf Kolthoff, opened its dioramas to the public in November 1893 and is still an active museum with about 15000 visitors yearly. The museum has panorama paintings by [[Bruno Liljefors]] (assisted by [[Gustaf Fjæstad]]), Kjell Kolthoff and several hundred preserved animals in their natural habitats.{{fact|date=August 2021}}