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Creator Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher.
Title Die Einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen Thee ins a Meer am 18 December 1773 [graphic].
Title Boston Tea Party, December 18, 1773
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 the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Protestors board and dump barrels of tea from English ships as spectators watch from the shore. Among the spectators is an African American man sitting on a barrel and a Native American man smoking a pipe.
Is referenced by Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 248
Notes Inscribed upper left corner: S.74.
Plate 2 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 Boston Tea Party, 1773.
Riots -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
African American men -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Indians of North America -- Massachussetts -- Boston.
Indigenous peoples.
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.8935.2]
Accession number P.8935.2