Illuminated Document
subject: Illuminated manuscript describing the act of Congress to give used Civil War cannons for the creation of The Minute Man of Concord
description: Paint and Pencil on paper
creator: Artist Unknown
source: Gift of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1874
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
relation: The Minute Man of Concord
language: English
type: Paint and ink on paper

Woodcut Print
subject: Woodblock print
description: Woodblock print in color
creator: Artist Unknown
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Print
coverage: 7 5/8" x 9 5/8"

Camp Massachusetts at Concord
subject: Concord, MA
description: Lithograph
creator: Artist Unknown
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Lithograph
coverage: 18" x 24 9/16"

First Restoration of Old North Bridge
subject: Old North Bridge
description: Watercolor
creator: Artist Unknown
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Painting
coverage: 12 1/2" x 19 3/8"

View of the Battleground, Concord
subject: Painting of the battleground where the Concord Fight took place on April 19, 1775
description: The North Bridge area in Concord—and particularly the bridge itself—is powerfully symbolic of the struggle for independence that began here in 1775. But for more than eighty years (from 1793 until 1874), no bridge stood on the site where the Concord Fight had taken place. This oil painting of the battleground depicts the area in the mid-19th century, when there was no bridge. In 1793, the “rude bridge that arched the flood” was dismantled. Rather than rebuilding on a spot vulnerable to the elements and requiring frequent repair, the town erected a new bridge (Flint’s Bridge) near Abishai Flint’s, and relocated the road that had run on the north side of the river, where the Buttrick house stood, to the south side, thereby creating a section of what is now known as Monument Street. There was no bridge when Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” was sung at the 1837 dedication of the Battle Monument. A new bridge was finally constructed in 1874, when a Victorian cedar bridge, with gazebos, was put up for the 1875 centennial celebration of the Concord Fight. This oil painting bears a striking resemblance to a lithograph known to have been done by Gloucester (Massachusetts) landscape and marine painter and lithographer Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865) about 1840. Because the lithograph is signed by Lane, the unsigned painting has sometimes also been attributed to him. However, Lane specialists have not found sufficient evidence (stylistic or other) to ascribe the painting to the artist. It may have served as the source for Lane’s lithograph, or it may have been painted from the lithograph. Regardless of whose work the painting represents and of whether it preceded the lithograph or vice versa, the lithograph influenced mid-19th century consciousness of the spot on which the Concord Fight had taken place.
creator: Artist Unknown
source: Purchased through the Samuel Hoar Fund
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1840-50
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
relation: 2020-001-188
format: Oil on canvas
type: Painting
coverage: 28" x 38"

Amusement Park at Walden
subject: Painting of the Amusement Park at Walden
description: Oil on Canvas
creator: Artist Unknown
source: Purchased through the Prichard Fund
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1870-1880
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Painting
coverage: 18" x 28"

Henry P. Richardson
subject: Henry P. Richardson
description: Oil on Canvas Painting
creator: Artist Unknown
source: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Richardson
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Painting
coverage: 27" x 23 1/4"

Woman in Mobcap
subject: Unknown woman in mobcap
description: Pencil and Pastel on Canvas
creator: Artist Unknown
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
coverage: 20" x 16"

Aerial photo of Concord
subject: Walden Pond
description: Aerial photograph of the Town of Concord featuring Walden Pond
creator: Ashworth
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1938
rights: All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library

Mrs. Simon Brown
subject: Mrs. Simon Brown, aka Ann Caroline French Brown, wife of Simon Brown, editor of the New England Farmer and Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. She was the sister of Judge Henry Flagg French and aunt of Daniel Chester French
description: Watercolor on paper
creator: Attr. To William Merchant Richardson French
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1883-4
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Watercolor
coverage: 7" x 9 5/8"