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[The Boston boys and General Gage] – Vintage Wall Art

[The Boston boys and General Gage] — antique engraving
[The Boston boys and General Gage]. Antique engraving from the Boston 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 rare antique engraving captures [The Boston boys and General Gage] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The title names two figures, Gen. Thomas Gage and "the Boston boys," which sets this engraving apart from the city views on the board. Gage commanded British troops in Boston from 1774, when the Coercive Acts closed the port and brought soldiers into the town, and relations between the garrison and local residents grew tense. Young Bostonians often mocked and pelted the redcoats, so a scene of boys confronting the general captures a familiar friction of those years. The caption card gives no date, so the print may have been made in the 18th century or later as a retrospective view of the Revolutionary period.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,128 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125188

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