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Illustration for Dorothy Q / The youthful sire

Date1893

Illustration CitationDorothy Q: Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1893)

MediumInk on Bristol board

Dimensionssheet: 6 3/8 × 4 1/4 in. (16.2 × 10.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. C. Lalor Burdick, 1992

Object number1992-20

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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."