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Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object name |
Painting |
Title |
Paul Revere, 1775 |
Artist or maker |
John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945) |
Date |
1910 |
Place of origin |
USA |
Physical description |
While Paul Revere rowed across the river from Boston to Charlestown, friends waited with his horse, hidden in the bushes. This picture shows him immediately after landing, as he pauses for an instant, foot in stirup, to observe the lights flashed from the belfry of the old North Church, before mounting for his famous ride. |
Past exhibit |
Dunsmore: Illustrating the American Revolutionary War |
Current exhibit |
Path to Liberty: The War Reimagined |
Gallery label |
Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation (2025): On the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere, who was employed as an express rider by the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, was instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. After being rowed across the Charles River, he borrowed a horse from his friend Deacon John Larkin and rode out to alarm the countryside. This painting shows him after coming ashore, as he paused for an instant, foot in stirrup, to see the lights flashed from the belfry of the old North Church, signaling that the British were coming "by sea" across the Charles River to Cambridge, before mounting for his famous ride. |
Catalogue number |
1936.02.023 |
Collection name |
Paintings and Sculpture |
Credit line |
Gift of George A. Zabriskie Memorial, 1936 |
People |
Dunsmore, John Ward Revere, Paul Newman, Robert |