The Boston Massacre, 1770

Not on View

Medium

engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 20 × 21.91 cm (7 7/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

sheet: 27.31 × 23.81 cm (10 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Brigham 1969, pl. 14

Accession Number

1943.3.9042

Artists / Makers

Paul Revere (artist) American, 1735 - 1818

Henry Pelham (artist after) American, 1749 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, above image: The Boston Massacre perpetuated in King Street BOSTON on March 5th, 1770 by a party of the 29th RegT.; in plate, in image, at lower left: Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere BOSTON

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; acquired 1943 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1986-1987

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1969: Brigham, Clarence S. Paul Revere's Engravings. New York: Atheneum, 1969, pl. 14.