Paul Revere, 1772

Paul REVERE (1734-1818). "The Boston Massacre, perpetrated on March the 5th, 1770," excised from the Massachusetts Calendar, or an Almanac for 1772. Boston: Isaiah Thomas, 1772.

Revere's woodcut of the Boston Massacre. This simplified version of Revere's copperplate Massacre graced not only the 1772 edition of the Massachusetts Calendar but would appear also on the 1772 broadside, A Monumental Inscription on the Fifth of March, both printed by Isaiah Thomas. See Brigham, Paul Revere’s Engravings, p. 64.

Woodcut. 6 x 4 3/8 in (155 x 112mm). (Loss at bottom affecting text with missing text supplied in facsimile.) Framed.