[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/3a/3a01b37cfd34-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 the name of a man killed in the Boston Massacre, make up this woodcut, which ran in the *Boston Gazette, and Country Journal* on March 12, 1770, one week after the shooting on King Street. The men named are Crispus Attucks, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Samuel Maverick, and a skull and crossbones appears among the coffins as a sign of mourning. Printed alongside the news account, the image turned a street clash into a public memorial and helped shape how colonists understood the incident. Its plain, stark design shows how newspapers used simple woodcuts to rally readers around a single event.
| 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 | 1,225 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122742 |
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