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Speedwell was a 60-ton pinnace that carried a band of English Dissenters now popularly called the Pilgrims from Leiden, Holland, to England, whence they intended to sail to America aboard both the Speedwell and the Mayflower in 1620. The Pilgrims initially set sail in both ships, but Speedwell was found to be unseaworthy and both ships returned ...
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The Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1857) by American painter Robert Walter Weir at the Brooklyn Museum. The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Embarkation of the Pilgrims: Robert Walter Weir: commissioned 1837, placed 1844: The Pilgrims appear on the deck of the ship Speedwell as they depart Delfshaven in South Holland on July 22, 1620. William Brewster, holding the Bible, and pastor John Robinson lead Governor Carver, William Bradford, Miles Standish, and their families in prayer.
Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir (commissioned 1837; placed 1844), oil on canvas, 12 x 18 feet, United States Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC; Robinson is depicted leading them in prayer Historical marker to the memory of John Robinson near where he is buried at the Pieterskerk, Leiden, Netherlands
Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven, Holland, July 22, 1620; Picnic Along the Hudson [12] Saint Nicholas (1837) [13] in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum [14] Landing of Hendrik Hudson (1842) Amerigo Vespucci (1842) A Compositor Setting Type (ca. 1844) [15] Portrait of Robert E. Lee. One of only two portraits of Lee ...
Embarkation of the Pilgrims, an 1844 portrait by Robert Walter Weir, which now hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda. Speedwell was re-rigged with larger masts before leaving Holland and setting out to meet Mayflower in Southampton, England, around the end of July 1620. [7] [8] The Mayflower was purchased in London.
Its reverse features a portrait of the early settlers boarding ships (The Embarkation of the Pilgrims) and the number 10,000 along with the words "Federal Reserve Note". [4] The simpler reverse of the 1928 and 1934 series featured a decorative border and the text "The United States of America", "Ten Thousand Dollars" and "10,000". [5]