Study for the oil painting, 'The Battle of Lexington 1775'

Charcoal and wash sketch from a sketchbook by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936), 1911 (c).

The sketch represents a firing line of American Revolutionary Militia at the Battle of Lexington, the first engagement between British and American troops in the American War of Independence (1775-1783).

Wollen's oil painting of the Battle of Lexington is part of the National Army Museum's collection (NAM. 1959-11-302).