Banvard, John
artist, author, poet, was born about 1820, in New York. He was an artist and poet whose famous panorama of the Mississippi covered three miles of canvas. He wrote much indifferent verse, and published books of a miscellaneous nature. He was the author of Amasis, the Last of the Pharaohs, afterward dramatized by him; Carrinia: Drama; Description of the Mississippi River; Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; The Private Life of a King; A Tradition of the Temple, and a Poem. He died in 1891.