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| Keywords: 1770 BostonMassacre byRevere detail CustomHouse.png Detail showing the Boston Custom House on King Street next to Butcher's Hall From The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish later to become known as the Boston Massacre between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5 1770 On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers on the signal of an officer fire into a crowd of civilians at left Three of the latter lie bleeding on the ground Two other casualties have been lifted by the crowd In the foreground is a dog; in the background are a row of houses the First Church and the Town House Behind the British troops is another row of buildings including the Royal Custom House which bears the sign perhaps a sardonic comment Butcher's Hall Beneath the print are 18 lines of verse which begin Unhappy Boston see thy Sons deplore Thy hallowed Walks besmeared with guiltless Gore Also listed are the unhappy Sufferers Saml Gray Saml Maverick James Caldwell Crispus Attucks and Patrick Carr killed and it is noted that there were Six wounded; two of them Christr Monk John Clark Mortally 1 print engraving with watercolor on laid paper ; 25 8 x 33 4 cm plate http //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File Boston_Massacre_high-res jpg 1770 Engrav'd Printed Sold by Paul Revere Boston The print was copied by Revere from a design by Henry Pelham for an engraving eventually published under the title The Fruits of Arbitrary Power or the Bloody Massacre of which only two impressions could be located by Brigham Revere's print appeared on or about March 28 1770 PD-old-100 Boston Massacre in art Engravings by Paul Revere Henry Pelham engraver Custom House Boston | ||||
