Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Lord Percy's hunted soldiers
Date1893
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration CitationDorothy Q: Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, with illustrations by Howard Pyle (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1893).
MediumInk on Bristol board
Dimensionssheet: 9 1/2 × 6 7/8 in. (24.1 × 17.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. James Archie Collins, 1986
Object number1986-135
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe subject of Holmes' first poem of this book was his great-grandmother Dorothy Quincy (1709-1762), or more properly a portrait of her that was stabbed by a British soldier during the American Revolution. The Ballad of the Boston Tea Party celebrates the colonists' daring resistance of British taxation without representation. Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle was composed for the centenary celebration of the event. A reviewer praised both the author and the artist, noting that Howard Pyle "has given a perfect wealth of happily conceived illustration. The air of the quaint and heroic old Revolutionary times breathes through every page."
