Shooting of the decimated Texians – Antique Print
(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 engraving of Shooting of the decimated Texians brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Shooting of the decimated Texians
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The engraving depicts the execution of prisoners from the Texan expedition that crossed into Mexico in 1842 and ended in surrender near Mier. According to the accounts that circulated afterward, Mexican authorities had the captured men draw beans from a jar, and those who drew the black beans, roughly one in ten of the group, were shot. The picture appeared as an illustration in Charles McLaughlin's *Journal of the Texan Expedition against Mier*, published in 1845, and it shows how American readers were given a dramatic and sharply partisan version of the episode.
| Created / published | 1845 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Charles McLaughlin, Journal of the Texan Expedition against Mier, 1845. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. History--1845; Texas--History--Republic--1836-1846; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,042 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150630 |
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