The Minute Man Monument
1897
Ernest Peixotto captured the iconic Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts, in this delicate 1897 wash drawing. The figure stands tall on a massive pedestal, musket in hand and a plow tucked behind his legs—a perfect symbol of the farmer-soldier who dropped his tools to fight at the start of the American Revolution. The loose, atmospheric background suggests the historic battlefield where the 'shot heard 'round the world' was fired. Peixotto's signature at the bottom anchors this study to the very ground where history was made, offering a quiet, artistic reflection on a monument that defined a nation's birth.
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