Price: $75.00
SKU: 92205
ARTIST: Roger Wheeler
MEDIUM: Wax lithograph
DATE: Undated, c. 1950.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 7/8 x 15 1/4" (30.2 x 38.8 cm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: A fun pictorial-historical map showing the routes that Paul Revere, William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott took during their "Midnight Ride". Illustrations include the Old North Church, along with a signal lantern, the North Bridge in Concord, Wright & Monroe Taverns, the Hancock-Clark House and the monument and inscription and the location where Revere was captured. <br><br> The story of this important event was immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is his poem Paul Reveres Ride: “Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- one if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm… .”
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CONDITION: Good condition. B/W
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