Image Credits
In the Paul Revere's Ride music video historical paintings and other images complement the story. Google Images was the amazing source, opening a universe of art and photos if you can just craft the right search terms. Type Paul Revere's Ride and find a wall of galloping, pointing, shouting, tricorner-hatted riders, yours for a click. But it took some digging to find images to enhance the story without imposing their own interpretation.
Remarkably most of the story's characters had their portraits painted, helping us picture them as events unfold. It's easy to forget that for most of history no images of people or events were preserved unless a skilled artist took the time to capture them. Dr. Prescott left no portrait, so we can only imagine his face alongside Revere and Dawes.
Many of these images appear on dozens of webpages, usually without attribution.
Out of respect for the artists I've tried to locate the originals and reference them below;
click on an image for the most authoritative page I could find for it.
Margaret Kemble Gage, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, 1771, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego CA
The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor, Nathaniel Currier, 1846, D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield MA
The Gordon Riots, 1780, oil on canvas, John Seymour Lucas, 1879, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Middle Dutch Church on Nassau, Liberty, and Cedar Streets, from Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution, Volume II, Benson J. Lossing, 1850
The Landing of Troops From New England on the Island of Cape Breton to Attack Louisbourg, F Stephen, 1747
A Saddled Dark Bay Horse next to an Urn in a Garden, oil on panel, George Goodwin Kilburne, 1895, National Trust
Paul Revere, J. Wenninger c. 1879 Illustration for The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, and Co., 1879)
The Fairbanks House in Dedham, MA is thought to be the oldest standing timber frame building in North America, 1640
Arnold House is a rare surviving example of a stone-ender, a once-common building type featuring a massive chimney end wall. Built by Eleazer Arnold in 1693
Mrs. Thomas Hancock (nee Lydia Henchman), oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, 1766, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Mrs. Sylvanus Bourne, oil on canvas, John Singleton Copley, 1765, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, 10th Regiment of Foot, oil on canvas, Francis Cotes, 1764, National Army Museum
There are no known pictures of Dr. Samuel Prescott; this is an illustration from the Horseback Riding section of the
1765 Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot
The Battle of Lexington, 19th April 1775, 1910 (oil on canvas), William Barnes Wollen, National Army Museum, London