the
Gill
Lawful
the
and
of
of
I
far
still
least
decorative.
a
it
is
could
1AUL
770,
t
famous
commemorated
the
not
March
following
On
of late
the
and as
possible
SIR,
There
Gill
far
£
of
three
the
the
appears
be
When
dictates
advertisements
because
ç
as
March
horrid
all
Money.”
from
for
confidence
(Price
located, I
evidence
artist
26,
as
were
thought
his
REVERE’S
engravers
The
“Printing
I
I
being
letter
of
heard
the
Massacre
engravings.
knew
29,
1770,
of
and
I-lonoui-
three
mystery
One
On
and
its
same
I
one
Boston
and
goes
1
solved.
to
patriot, had
that
you
770,
rarity.
carried
March
Shilling
constitute
the
Paul
prints
in
of
Trust 200
—
entrusted
and
was
advertisement,
you
in
the the
of
Henry
late
King-street.”
It
those
Justice
Impressions
not
was
Revere:
and
its
More
I
of
great
newspapers
is
the
28,
reposed
Charles
Lawful)
origin
capable
cutting
the
the
it
its
problems
by
Pelham,
Massacre”
following
than
1770,
in
than
events
Massacre,
“THuRsD\y
crude
corner-stone
Pelham,
Massacre
the
in
and
of
a
52 to
E.
only
hands
plate
you.
of
twenty-five
A
Revere
doing
take
In
coloring is
Goodspeed
of
the
the
that
Massacre.”
Print,
the
important.
But the
advertisement,
is
American
of
Revere,
the
of
Boston
issued
I\IORNG.
it
claims
the
the
Boston
a
are
price unless
I
undue
in
of
person
find
containing
and most late
his
any
somewhat
copies
in
and
handled
painter
for
BosToN,
is
you
I
advantage
Murder,
design
Day
Gazette,
history,
who
The
Massachusetts
American
was
changed famous
1770
priority
Mulliken.
coppied
of
had
mistaken
Book
“To
Boston
and
MARCH
a
made
at
the
I
perplexing
more
it
you
Representation
and
also
thought
least
to
be
it
on
engraver,
was
charges
original
collection.
from
have
“Eight
it
Ez’ening
and
of
most
The
Sold regard
29,
the
a
engraved
exceedingly
in
March
dozen.
it
10.
done
after
mine
part
sequence
im
by
desirable
1770,
Edes
and
to
Revere
wrote
Pence
Edes
Post
of
This
26,
But
are
of
by
&
as at PAUL REVERE’S ENGRAVINGS 53
being at the great Trouble an ice of making a design paying for paper,print ing &c. find myself in the most ungenerous ln-r ved not only of any proposed Advantage but even of the expence I have been at, as truly as if you had plundered me on the highway. If you are insensible of the Dishonour you have brought on ourseif by this Act, the World will not be so. However, I leave you to reflect upon and consider of one of the most dishonorable Actions you could well be guilty of.
H. PELHAM.
P S. I send by the Bearer the prints I borrowed of you. My Mother desired you would send the hinges and part of the press, that you had from her.” (Massachusetts Historical SocietyCollections, 1914, Volume 71, page 8, and also photostat of original which is in Entry Book of letters dispatched, in the British Public Record Office, Colonial OfficeRecord, C.O. 5/39, Part I, f. i.) Following the letter is also a bill from Daniel Rca,Jr., March, 1770, for “Printing j5 of your Prints ia/Pr.Hund. 3:9:” (Ideni, page 84).
In the Boston Evening Post of April 2, 1770, appeared this advertisement, “To be sold by T. & J. Fleet, and Edes &Gill, [Price Eight Pence] The Fruits of Arbitrary Power: An Original Print, representing the late horrid Massacre in Kingstreet, taken on the Spot.” The same advertisement, except for a transposition of the names of the printers, was in the Boston Gazette of the same date. In the American Antiquarian Society collection is an engraving of the Massa cre with the following inscription at the top: “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre, perpetrated in King Street Boston, on March 5th 1770, in which Messrs. Saml. Gray: SamI. Maverick. James Caidwell. Crispus Attucks. Patrick Carr were killed. Six Others Wounded Two of them Mortally.” Under neath is a quotation from the Ninety-fourth Psalm, with a skull and cross-bones in the lower left-hand corner and a sword broken by lightning in the right-hand corner. The size of the print is 9i6 by 84 inches, within the rectangular lines. The print is unsigned, and this copy, one of two known and the only perfect copy, is partially colored. There is a water—markof a crown, with the letters “LVG,” which Dard Hunter assures me is probably the water-mark of Lubertus van Ger revink, a highly regarded paper-maker of Holland. There is not the slightest question in my mind but that the print entitled “The
in
can
ing
him ton,
I
Amory’s
regarding
great
of
don
Rowan,
Society
“certainly on
Britain
although
1\/Iassacre.” market.
that
time
advertised
Original ing
against
first
777
Peiham,
newspapers
engraving
Fruits
full
Desmond,
Antiquarian
the
“Painters
written
both
That
iVotes
his
is
part
advertised
he
Pelham’s
size
well of i
1777
Proceedings,
after
print.
noting
Edes
876.
Life
In
is
an
on
of
Henry
I
Arbitrary
in
and
Pelham’s
painted
by
his
sending
have
in
a
engraved
engraver
a
March
as
the
his
published
Map
of
and
The
letter
&
large
Then,
Henry Queries,
i
print,
a
a
prints
859,
Gill Jo/in
Society on
.
Celebration
“Representation departure
mezzotint
Pelham
not
Engravers best
.
and
of
March county
29,
of
Power” to
.
later
on
in
which
May,
been
“The and
S.
Boston,
and
Peiham.
reached
taken
May
engraved
wrote
sketch
Series
by
the
his
and
March
Copl’y,
could
a
BOSTON
a
life
and
able
him
to
26,
painter. Boston
i
Fruits highly
by
brother
notes in
I
in
866,
of
on
in
his
and that
i,
of
in
baronial
the Henry
most
Revere’s the 1770,
1770,
i/ic
June
to
z8
engrave
New
Volume
the
letter
1882,
a
Henry
several
of
Ireland,
the Volume
locate
country.
of
picture
valuable
American
street,
newspapers
for
Centennial
The
at
the
of
MASSACRE, Spot.”
,
Arbitrary
to
and
England”
map
Pelham
upbraiding
printing
pages
the
map,”
Newton
print,
late Charles
i
Pelbam, prints
4,
Map
some
of
8o6.
Revere’s
put
on
9,
of
where
Boston
page
William
map.
Henry
Note
horrid
3—5,
Antiquarian
page
The
County
of
and
on
of
which
lie
Anniversary
of
of is
200
Power,”
in
“two
Pelham,
306,
Boston,
There
Katharine
well
sale.
by
April
those
Revere
quotes
he
Finding
the
gives
libraries, says
204,
1770
print Pelham’s
the
Massacre
impressions
H.
Denison
was
contains
died
Clare
known
word
Revere
of
that
which Massachusetts
2,
considerable are
says
Whitmore,
published
and
a
had
for
described
Henry
Society
my letter
I
in
of
of copies
770,
Fitzgerald,
in
and
Pelham
that
surreptitiously
“Original.”
engravings,
described in
already
R.
Moses.”
to
the
an
prints
r
entered
he
Ireland,
8o6.
King-street”
of it
by
the
Slade,
a
Pelham
article
collection
Henry
made
Evacuation
in
is
week
in
the
John
in
in
information
executed
antiquarian,
the
reproduced
Martha
of
flooded
London
the
Historical
his
The
his
Massacre.
and
it
is
Countess
by
in
Ameri
later,
the
Pelham
includ
Single
records
as
By
in
charge
article
Boston
Great
A.
copy
Lon
calls
is
“An
the
late
was
the
the
of
the
B.
“a
in
B.
he 55
to
though
tions, used
standing
copies
print,
inches
size
others.
signed
by
was some
their Peiham
customary delivered.
sceptics
AU
printed
issue of
volume setts
Monthly
May,
Leicester
Publications
the
193—211.
circulating
the
The of
in
an
of
the Pelham’s left, way,
portion at the
of
Historical
high
the
the
at
it. Peiham
outstanding
Peiham’s
i
for least to 8,
the
by
Revere
intended differences
first
8, water—mark
He
has
Pelham
for
query Ford
without
No
in
by
the
Lobertus
page
Bibliographer,
in
William of
was the
glance
April
so
seven
of
84
comment
letters
letter
Massachusetts
some
is contributed
engraving
the
significant
whether
Society
227.
letters
the
eighteenth
to
an
7/
“Fruits
patriot
wide
credit
of profit.
columns between
they van
publish
engraver,
is
copies
Colonial
copied
to
In
H.
that
inches
PAUL
a
were
and
to upon
crown, Gerrevink
Revere
i
Peiham’s
or
Whitmore
seem
902
and
of
is
It
the
year, page
a
an
which
acknowledgment.
from
it
century
the
too
print.
instead
the
in
Arbitrary
is
high Historical
saw the
Paul
article
REVERE’S
Society
edges was
identical.
not
all
the
and
in
well
i
print,
did
Peiham
the
i.
matter
the letter
by I a
which
Certain
an
printed of
form
Leicester
underneath
read of
have matter
for of not on
manuscripts Then
known
811
Flolland,
opportunity
artist, of
or
Power.”
eight
the
the
was
engravers
Society
The
of
the
by
and
;
he come
Massachusetts,
seen, possibly
also
in
in
text.
ENGRAVINGS
of
rough
Copley—Peiham
wide
printed
written
and Revere
to Ford
letter
in
Revere
the
Perhaps
Revere
i
surmise.
is 9
the
are it
need
the
to
As
in
The
I
could
a
is
in
4
for
Society’s
of
printed
drafts,
to
he
the
light
at
same
capital
Volume
can
that
Worthington
cupola
the
only
the
has
a
furthering
copy
water-mark
the
a
engravings
even
letterc
detailed
Revere
meeting
only
be Certain
Public
Peiham—Revere
he
ever water-mark
until
in
size
which
1
the
seen
letter anything
898,
has
of
ProcccJinc,
never
shared draft
7
letters
copy
L
1
been
of
the
letter
did
the
in
Record
of
description.
i
V
it
the
of
Volume
893,
the
has
“W.”
form,
could
C. are
G, the
First
in
the
is
its not
the
moon
to
found.
with
patriot
in
that
which
cut,
the Ford
cau’ed
supposedly
which
Ci!ectins.
many,
the
reproduc
decignc
when know
the
Macachu_
()t}ice
and
In
Church
have
letter.
Revere Pelham
Series
or
facing
il/antic
Revere
ç,
had
other It
March
cause
never
came
The
wa
some
94
pae
that
al
Paul
de
was
and
of
all
In 2, BOSTON MASSACRE, 1770 57 to the left of the Town House, omits a smoking chimney behind the figure of the unicorn, omits a slender steeple to the right of this chimney, has no clear design of the sun-dial on the Town House, and inserts the words “Butcher’s Hall” on the second story of the “Custom House.” The chief difference between the two engravings is the inscription above and below, as will he seen in the repro ductions. The Peiham engraving is drawn with a much freer hand, has more depth and artistic expression, and gives a more lifelike feeling to the figures of the soldiers — all of which would be expected from an artist of Pelham’s ability. The third engraving of the 1\lassacre, apparently contemporaneous, is that in scribed “Jona. Mulliken Newbury Port sculp.” This follows the Revere print al most exactly, except that there are a sufficient number of differences, such as hav ing only six columns in the cupola of the First Church, the use of “ye 29th Regt” instead of “the 29th Regt,” and many variations in the drawings of lines and letters, to show that it was an independent print, and not a restrike. The size of the i\Iulliken print is 9 inches high by 8 wide, to the edges of the text. Jonathan Mulliken was a clock-maker of Newburyport who was born in i 746 and died in 1782. Although he is not credited with any other printed engravings, he is known to have executed some etching on the brass faces of clocks. The Newburyport
Essex Journal of May 25, 1 774, has his advertisement as a clock- and watch maker. From the appearance of his print of the Massacre it would seem to be a fairly faithful copy of Revere’s work and was probably issued contemporaneously for sale in Newburyport. There was no Newburyport newspaper in I 770 to ad vertise such a print, and no other paper in Salem or Boston mentioned it. There are copies of this print owned by the American Antiquarian Society, Harvard College, Henry L. Shattuck of Bocton, Miss Caroline C. Hollingsworth of York, Maine, Charles F. Rowley of Bocton, the Winterthur Museum, and the William 13. Goodwin Estate of Hartford. Most of these copies are colored. In connection with Revere’s print, it should he noted that there was a vari ant, with the hands of the clock on the First Church pointed to 8 o’clock, instead of 10.20 o’clock. This \vac rst noticed, co far as I can find, in the 1902 Catalogue \umber 8 of Burnham’s Antique Book Store, number 41, priced at $700 and reproduced in the catalogue. This copy was previously owned by Francis LeBaron
Antiquarian
Restrikes shilling
it
the
only
engrave
Boston,
title
Annual
owned
in
of
matter, 1770.”
inches,
wide,
used
12
ance
light;
measured
Pelham
the
so-called
A.
\Iiddendorf, 497,
logue
Auction
Goodwin,
a
top,
a
The
and
in at
populous
late H.
Edes
hands
it
in
printing
the
the
notes.
removing
$
by
according
Report in
in
the in
exactly
with
Rich (See
original
King
i
19,
have
Military
print.
000.
&
top,
issue the
issuing
the
“eight Catalogue,
1908,
at
Society
8J
1\Iassachusetts
Gill
a
The
1770,
the Plate
well-regulated
of
io:o.
Street
been
Archives
is
Ne-York
Apparently surgeon’s
the
II,
for
Presumably
of
as
by
New
not owned
copper-plate
the
no.
cut
o’clock”
to
Massacre
late
July
i\Iassacre
of
account
originally
1930. has
9J no.
and
made
the
occurred
only
title,
Revere
334,
taking
Greenwich,
York,
April
in
a
8,
by
i6,
also
S/irt
inches.
Office.
PAUL
mate
March, dozen
puhlihed
A
and
from
$1200;
i
of
Historical
Frank print
thee
paper
775.
side
slightly
the defaced
three
at and,
could
using
i
Town,
the
issued. at
juct
i,
\arratne
of
in
Boston,
hands,
of varieties.
this
On It
the
ha
sales
To
REVERE’S 190;,
Massacre
Revere’s
after
money
H.
(onnecticut.
1770,
the
before columns
not
the
in
was
the
Revere’s
bottom,
copy, the
reduce reduced.) taken
the
defaced
Schramm,
the
The
were
Society,
Revolution.
plate
copy
in his
or copper-plate
no.
used
a
reverse
hands
of
issue
Rosenhach
any
10
Two
showing the large
death
from
broadside
taken
Massacre
of at
68;,
i/ic
the the
shows
removing
P.M.
by
copper
case,
the
the
ENGRAVINGS
Consequences
of
and
at
The
The
MassaCre, of
time
plate
broadside,
the of
Revere
he
in
from
$700;
May
8:i
top. same
them
several
of
could
Burlington,
the It
is
engraved
i
Boston-Gazette,
Rosenhach
only
on
Catalogue
956,
many
of
is
to
o.
took
the
is
reproduced
all
the
It
25,
now
copy,
the
proper
The
the
in
are
when
advertised
not
was
Buton
of
known
smooches
Boston
the to
five
George
clock 19
times.
1775,
the
engraving, old,
in
be
only, of
“ten
Mr.
now
headed
the
height
inches
he
size the
Iowa. columns easily
of
Quartering
verses. copy
Massacre,
perhaps
from
Gazette
complete
Middendorf.
o’clock”
altered
was owned 10,
The with
March, in
I). State
he
and
in
of
was
of
“An
high
seen
the
cut 12,
As the Smith’s
engaged the
American
part
March the
scratches.
8
of
House
sold
by
early
of
reduced
for Society’s
by
it
and
Account
indistinct
by
1913, Anderson
but
copy
Troops
printed disturb
March
of
off
J.
x
moon
date
to
i5/
Cata
they
Wm.
the
9ic
i8
This in
i
at
to in
Dr.
has
2,
is no. in
“Revere Icmorial
Narrative, Process).” Dictionary c.re, he Kidder
exact gett’s
it Paul cre, duced, lain and I
Smith, key nations
Volume says 6o was WriIsor)s the Revere’s his other the 770,
was
his
omits
It pen-and-ink
British
An Boston,
collection to nineteenth li/s
that
first i
Revere,
facsimile
Narrative 8o, edition
with a has
Short
describe with
plate
reduced
facsimile for
interesting Engraving,
mention
engraved i, it hand.
Narrative
reproduced
been
History
calls Kidder page
of
such used was
the
soldiers.
identification
Narrative I
has
of 770, Books 1942,
in
as frequently
It
streets drawn century,
all
for
the 73. from defects
and
a
the plan
the
of
of
all
was
line
a
does
of carried
such side—light
a
and the
a
Neither
Narrative, large relating This 1901, of
following
Crtical
same Boston
plate,
in Boston, plate.
again
of
the
by
and
below
was
the
not
original carefully
Critical
locations.
one
his
the
Revere, BOSTON
plan
supposed
folding
of
original
the
lettering small
page house
accompanied
mention
reproduced although
Frederic
Public chapter
Chamberlain
to scene
showing the
the
History,
on i
view was
page America,
88 i
engraving
History,
Revere’s 99,
victims
849,
print,
removed.
owners frontispiece
and picture i,
William
of
size
that
formerly
Library.
and of
Volume MASSACRE,
the
reproduces
on
146,
Kidder,
later the
all
the showed i
the
in
“Am.
of
the
888,
“The
much
plate
killed.
by
shown
massacre of
1869,
F. i888, of connection lettering
the
nor
in
by iz
massacre
Short
Loring
the
a
the
H.
owned
3,
Volume
in
his
Photo-Litho.
Paul
original
plate or folding Goss
a
of
Revolution
number
page The
Volume the Goss’s
frontispiece
smooches the
massacre, in
by
its
work,
the
Narrative
which
and 1770
the
Revere,
reproduced
Andrews,
History
source. by
as
plan,
8
plan
as
design
with
3
6,
plate
inches. 9, Life
is
original, Doggett,
a Mellen figures
in
6739,
6,
page
implies photographically
frontispiece.
is
was
engraved on
the which 1891,
Impending”
page
of
yet Justin
Co. now
of were
of
of
view,
the
Paul
in
47,
In used
in Boston
tile
the are
the
the it
Chamberlain,
N.
48.
but
in
number his
listing that
except
omitted.
was
appeared Esther copper,
says
Horrid
undoubtedly
Winsor,
Boston
but
Massacre,
original
Y. Revere,
the
in
by
Chamberlain
Paul
substituted
the far
Massacre
John
(Osborne’s the
stated
definitely:
Chamber
Sidney
the
in
that
Forbes’s
from
8o,668,
and
Boston,
Massa
Massa
Revere
trial
Sabin’s
repro
in in
justin desig
Short i
Dog 891,
that
and
and
the
the the
an
an
L.
of in
i
a
I
able
Also,
Sea had
few
written
the
cept
tor.
black
coloring
with
and
dence
small
copy
it
the
scription
be
not
Carr
IVlessrs.
“The
frontispiece
Andrews, “first
issued
official
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