Howard Pyle, The Battle of Bunker Hill, Scribner's Monthly Magazine for February, 1898
From The Story of the Revolution by [Senator] Henry Cabot Lodge.
Painted in oils, circa 1907, and part of the collection of the Delaware Art Museum.
The scene represents the second attack and is taken from the right wing of the Fifty-second Regiment, with a company of grenadiers in the foreground. The left wing of the regiment, under command of the major, has halted, and is firing a volley; the right wing is just marching past to take its position for firing. The ship-of-war firing from the middle distance is the [HMS] Lively; in the remoter distance is the smoke from the battery at Copp's Hill. The black smoke to the right is from the burning houses of Charlestown.
Detail from the painting, above.
Howard Pyle, The attack upon the Chew House, Scribner's Monthly Magazine for June, 1898
From The Story of the Revolution by [Senator] Henry Cabot Lodge.
Painted in oils, circa 1907, and part of the collection of the Delaware Art Museum.
The Continentals tried in vain to batter down the door, which was held in place by a heavy iron bar running across it. The officer upon the steps was of the Seventh Pennsylvania. The one lying upon his face at the right of the picture, had been detailed to come forward with the flag of truce, demanding the surrender of the house. He was permitted to come close to the house and then shot down beside the driveway. -- HP.
This feature ran in monthly instalments in Scribner's beginning in January 1898. All of the illustrations by Pyle and various others were printed as engravings in black-and-white. Click on images to enlarge them.
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