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The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. – Antique Print

The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774., Boston : Pendleton, 1830. — antique lithograph
The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774., Boston : Pendleton, 1830.. Antique lithograph from the Boston National Historic Park collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This antique lithograph of The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774.

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The title sets this picture apart from the other Boston Tea Party images on the board: instead of the harbor dumping, it shows a tax collector, the "excise-man," being tarred and feathered. The design comes from a British satirical print issued in London in 1774, when Parliament's Coercive Acts were turning the Massachusetts dispute into a full crisis. D. C. Johnston copied it onto stone for a Boston printing by Pendleton in 1830, so an American audience decades later saw a British caricature of colonial resistance. The reversal of viewpoint is worth noting, as the image records the violence of the Revolution's early years through hostile eyes.

Created / publishedBoston : Pendleton, 1830.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1830-1840.
NotesTitle from item. From the collection of Sherman Adams.
SubjectsBoston Tea Party, 1773. Punishment & torture--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. Tarring & feathering--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780. United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,141 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109415

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