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Washington, Henry and Pendleton Going to the First Continental Congress

Henry Bryan Hall · 1886

An 1886 lithograph imagining Patrick Henry riding with George Washington and Edmund Pendleton to the First Continental Congress.

Depicts Henry as one of three Virginia delegates journeying to the First Continental Congress.

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Engraved print of three men on horseback traveling through a landscape with hills and water. Three riders in 18th-century coats and tricorn hats: the left rider on a dark horse, the center rider on a light grey horse, and the right rider on a dark horse. Title and artist credit appear beneath.
Henry Bryan Hall, Washington, Henry & Pendleton going to the First Congress, 1886. New York Public Library.

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What it is

A lithograph by Henry Bryan Hall made in 1886, over a century after the event it depicts. It shows three men on horseback—George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Edmund Pendleton—traveling from Virginia to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Why it matters

This image is a later artistic imagining, not a scene recorded at the time. It shows how 19th-century artists pictured the Founding Fathers' journeys and relationships, grouping Henry with Washington and Pendleton as fellow Virginia delegates heading to a pivotal moment in colonial resistance to Britain.

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  • Since this was made over a hundred years after the event, what choices did the artist have to make up?
  • Why might artists want to imagine and depict journeys like this one?
  • What does the image suggest about the relationship between these three men?

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