Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt. The, [plus three columns of six lines each and legend below.]

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• ARTIST: Paul Revere

• PUBLISHER: Boston, (Fac-Simile) Republished. at 15 Water St. March 5, 1832.

• MEDIUM: Engraving,

  DATE: 1832.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 3/4 x 8 5/16" (19.9 x 21.3 cm)"with written inscription 10" high (25.4 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Engraved by William Stratton after Paul Revere’s “The Bloody Massacre” <BR><BR> Lauren B. Hewes in “Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere” discusses the reasons why this facsimile was produced. She points out that by 1830 many of the Revolutionary events had been forgotten including the Bloody Massacre. Massacre Day had been celebrated every March from 1771 to 1783 when it fell out of favor, and there were no acknowledgments of the event in the 1830’s papers, the sixtieth anniversary. In fact, Hewes points out that Paul Revere was better known in the 1830s as a Freemason and industrialist, having founded Revere Copper Company in 1801. From 1832 on Paul Revere’s name increasingly came up for his involvement in the revolutionary war. He was fully recognized after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem," Paul Revere’s Ride," in 1860 and published in 1861. <BR><BR> William Stratton (1803-1846) – It is not known where he had his training, but he was advertising his services as an engraver in 1829 producing mostly trade cards and other job printing. In 1833 he advertised offering comics and caricatures. <BR><BR> Signed within image "Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere Boston." <BR><BR> Legend continues - First column "Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore, : Thy hallow'd Walks besmear'd with guiltless gore: : While faithless P-n and, his savage Bands, : With murd'rous Rancour stretch their bloody Hands; : Like fierce Barbarians grinning o'er their Prey, : Approve the Carnage and enjoy the Day." <BR> Second column "If scalding drops from Rage from Anguish Wrung : If speechless Sorrows lab'ring for a Tongue : Or if a weeping World can ought appease : The plaintive Ghosts of Victims such as these : The Patriot's copious Tears for each are shed. : A glorious Tribute which embalms the Dead." <BR> Third column "But know, Fate summons to that awful Goal: : Where Justice strips the Murd'rer of his Soul: : Should venal C--ts the scandal of the Land. : Snatch the relentless Villain from her Hand. : Keen Execrations on this Plate inscrib'd, : Shall reach a Judge who never can be brib'd." Lower legend "The unhappy sufferers were Mess.s Saml Gray, Saml Maverick, Jams Caldwell, Crispus Attucks & Patk Carr : Killed. Six wounded two of them (Christr Monk & John Clark) Mortally." <BR><BR> This example is after the Revere and was re-engraved on copper by William F. Stratton in 1832. Brigham calls this “an interesting print. It copied the original Revere print as faithfully as any engraver could copy it.” <BR><BR> The steel-faced copper plate is in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Framed in a 18th-century style molding. Ex. Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston.

• CONDITION: Good condition and color.

• REFERENCE: Brigham C.S. "Paul Revere's Engravings" plate 22.

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