Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor – Vintage Wall Art
![Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor, [New York] : N. Currier, 1846. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4dbc800d889c-L.webp)
(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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Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor
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Few episodes of the colonial era were pictured more often than the night in December 1773 when colonists boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of East India Company tea into the water to protest British taxation. Issued by Nathaniel Currier in New York in 1846, this hand-colored lithograph shows the event as a patriotic subject for a mid-century audience that enjoyed Revolutionary-era stories. Currier's firm produced many such prints at prices ordinary households could afford, so the picture reflects both the popularity of American history and the commercial trade in images that surrounded it.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, 1846. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1706 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,047 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174367 |
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