The Fight on Lexington Common, April 19, 1775
Date1898
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The Story of the Revolution," by Henry Cabot Lodge, in Scribner's Magazine, January 1898
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions23 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (59.1 x 89.5 cm)
frame: 29 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (74.3 x 104.8 cm)
frame: 29 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (74.3 x 104.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-88
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextHenry Cabot Lodge's text describes this first skirmish of the American Revolution, when British troops defeated American militiamen in Lexington, near Boston. Pyle's painting—one of twelve for Lodge's text—is less an illustration of Lodge's minimally descriptive words, and more an image of the heroism and pathos of wounded and dying Americans.
