text: “[T]he shouting and yelling of the multitude, above fifteen hundred in number, could be distinctly heard at a distance of a mile,” the New York Daily Times reported on July 11, 1854. Detail from The Burning of the Old South Church in Bath, Maine by John Hilling, ca. 1854, oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 27 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. (54.6 x 69.5 x 5.4 cm.). Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.