[Four coffins of men killed in the Boston Massacre] – Antique Wall Art
![[Four coffins of men killed in the Boston Massacre], [1770 March 12] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0b0cc1bc22cc-L.webp)
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A window into the past: [Four coffins of men killed in the Boston Massacre], preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Four coffins, each marked with a skull and crossbones, stand side by side in this woodcut, a stark choice of image for a newspaper that wanted readers to remember the dead of the Boston Massacre. The Boston Gazette ran it on March 12, 1770, about a week after British soldiers fired into a crowd on King Street and killed five men, including Crispus Attucks. The names Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell and Attucks are the ones the subject list records, and the picture turns them into a sober funeral procession on paper. Its spare design, with no crowd or soldiers shown, leaves the grief and the anger to the viewer.
| Created / published | [1770 March 12] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut and letterpress. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1770.Newspapers 1770.Woodcuts 1770. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The Boston Gazette, and Country Journal, 1770 March 12. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 654. |
| Subjects | Attucks, Crispus,--d. 1770. Caldwell, James,--d. 1770. Gray, Samuel,--d. 1770. Maverick, Samuel,--1753?-1770. Boston Massacre, 1770--Casualties. Coffins--1770. Skull & crossbones--1770. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,012 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122742 |
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