Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Like a thunder cloud it breaks

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Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Like a thunder cloud it breaks

Date1893
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: 10 5/16 × 6 13/16 in. (26.2 × 17.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland, 1976
Object number1976-65
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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."
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Like a gentleman of leisure
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Like a gentleman of leisure
Howard Pyle
1893
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Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Lord Percy's hunted soldiers
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / We can see each massive column
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / We can see each massive column
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The frightened braves of Howe
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The frightened braves of Howe
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The Mohawks killed her father
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The Mohawks killed her father
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The Mohawks killed her fatherThe ominous calm is broken
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The Mohawks killed her fatherThe ominous calm is broken
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / I saw his eyes were blue
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / I saw his eyes were blue
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The barges gliding onward
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / The barges gliding onward
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Here's a soldier bleeding
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / Here's a soldier bleeding
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / They say I fainted
Illustration for Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle / They say I fainted
Howard Pyle
1893
Image Not Available for A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out
A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out
Howard Pyle
1892
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A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out
Howard Pyle
1905
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