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Creator Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher.
Title Die Americaner wiedersetzen sich der Stemple Acte, und verbrennen das aus England nach america Gesandte Stemple Papier zu Boston im August 1764. [graphic] / D. Chodowiecki, del. et. Sculp.
Title Resistance to the Stamp Act in Boston in August 1765
Publisher [Leipzig] : [Haude and Spener von Berlin]
Publisher GERMANY. Leipzig. 1783
Date [1783]
Physical Description 1 print : etching ; sheet 10 x 6 cm (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description Scene depicting a riot in the town square of Boston protesting the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765. Cheering spectators and participants, including a woman and an African American man, surround a bonfire, and brandish farm tools, and throw stamped paper onto the flames. Others watch from building windows overlooking the square.
Is referenced by Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 243
Notes Inscribed upper left corner: S. 61.
Plate 1 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D).
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Subject Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765)
Riots -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
African American men -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Women -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
Genre Etchings -- 1780-1790.
Book illustrations -- 1780-1790.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.1]
Accession number P.8935.1