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Before the end of March 1770, Paul Revere created and published this engraving of the Boston Massacre based on the original drawing by Henry Pelham. This piece was printed throughout the colonies and remains one of the most famous images of the American Revolutionary Era.
| View Cart ⇗ | Info. View of the Boston Massacre from an old print engraved, printed, and sold by Paul Revere, Boston. Keywords. Boston Massacre, political cartoon, Paul Revere. Galleries. 1763-1788 American Revolution Events, Events in Massachusetts History. Source. Arthur Mee and Holland Thompson, eds.
About three weeks after the massacre, Paul Revere distributed prints from an etching he made that showed the British as the aggressors in the Boston Massacre. Paul Revere hired an artist to draw the illustration. He created the etching from the artist's drawing. It was very effective.
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Drawing Info. Artist: Paul Revere. Location drawn: Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Related Events. 1770-03-05 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them.
This lesson invites students to examine and interpret depictions of the Boston Massacre—the deadly confrontation between Bostonians and British troops on the evening of March 5, 1770—by examining contemporary engravings of the event by Henry Pelham and Paul Revere of Boston and Jonathan Mulliken of Newburyport, Massachusetts, as well as later ve...
1. “The Bloody Massacre,” engraving by Paul Revere, 1770 (on display in the Old State House) 2.“The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770,” John Bufford’s 1857 chromolithograph of William L. Champney’s 1856 drawing (on display in the Old State House) • Timelines 1. American Revolution: 1765-1776 2. Abolition of Slavery: 1808-1896
In March 1770, British soldiers stationed in Boston opened fire on a crowd, killing five townspeople and infuriating locals. What became known as the Boston Massacre intensified anti-British sentiment and proved a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.