Nearly fifty years after Archibald Willard painted “The Spirit of ’76”, the man who posed as its drummer boy recalls the artist and the making of the picture. He sketches Willard’s life, tells of the fifer Hugh Mosher and the other models, and adds an early account by the photographer J. F. Ryder and notes on the sketches and replicas.
A short, affectionate history of one of America’s most familiar patriotic images. Download the free EPUB.