Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor – Historic Reproduction
![Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor, [New York] : N. Currier, 1846. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/68/68e4620b9913-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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This antique lithograph of Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor 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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Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor
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Few episodes of the Revolution are as recognizable as the night of December 16, 1773, when colonists boarded three ships carrying East India Company tea and dumped their cargo into Boston Harbor. Printed by Nathaniel Currier in New York in 1846, this hand-colored lithograph revisits that protest about 73 years later, when Americans were looking back on the Revolution with growing pride. Its popularity reflects the way the Tea Party had become a symbol of resistance to taxation without representation. Currier's firm sold such scenes of national history cheaply to a broad public, so the print shows how the event was remembered as much as how it happened.
| 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 × 1,018 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108936 |
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