A view of the Obelisk erected under Liberty-Tree in Boston on the rejoicings for the repeal of the ---- Stamp Act 1766 .

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• ARTIST: Paul Revere

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving

  DATE: 1766 (1943)

• EDITION SIZE: Plate size 10 1/8 x 13 3/4" (25.6 x 35.7 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: "To every Lover of Liberty, this Plate is humbly dedicated by her true born Sons, in Boston New England. "<br><br> One of the rarest of all known engraved prints by Revere.<br><br> The original copper plate is engraved on both sides. On the verso is Reveres engraving of a Masonic certificate.<br><br> The original copper plate survives and now in the collection of the National Gallery in Washington. The donor of the plate was a Mr. Lessing Rosenwald, just before he donated the plate he had Richard E. Bishop, a print maker and printer, pull nineteen proofs of this and the Masonic certificate.<br><br>

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed and dated in pencil "Printed by Richard Bishop - 1943".

• CONDITION: Good condition.

• REFERENCE: Brigham, pl. 61 & 65.

• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Historical