Casting Tea Overboard in Boston Harbor [1773] – Vintage Wall Art
![Casting Tea Overboard in Boston Harbor [1773] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a3/a324d9691b93-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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Casting Tea Overboard in Boston Harbor [1773]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Casting Tea Overboard in Boston Harbor [1773]
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The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, is the event this engraving depicts: colonists, some disguised as Mohawk men, emptying chests of East India Company tea into the water of Boston Harbor. This version appeared as a wood engraving in Harper's Monthly in December 1851, nearly eight decades after the fact, when the episode had become a staple of American patriotic memory. Its later date tells you more about the mid-nineteenth century than about the harbor itself, since illustrators of that period often reworked the scene to suit popular taste and national pride.
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1851 |
| Subjects | Wood engraving in Harper's Monthly, vol. 4, no. 9, Dec. 1851. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US History-- 1774 -- Massachusetts; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130065 |
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