Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man standing next to his crashed two-wheeled cart and horse. Shows the man attired in a white top hat, which is crushed and covering his eyes; a white collared shirt; a white waistcoat; a blue bowtie; a black jacket with tails; white pants; yellow gloves; and black shoes. He stands carrying a whip in his right hand. His left hand clutches his right arm in pain. The right wheel has fallen off of the cart and lies on the ground behind him. The brown horse stands in the right still harnessed to the broken cart., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.268]., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 14 - The finish [P.2017.95.267]
Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man standing next to his crashed two-wheeled cart and horse. Shows the man attired in a white top hat, which is crushed and covering his eyes; a white collared shirt; a white waistcoat; a blue bowtie; a black jacket with tails; white pants; yellow gloves, and black shoes. He stands carrying a whip in his right hand. His left hand clutches his right arm in pain. The right wheel has fallen off of the cart and lies on the ground behind him. The brown horse stands in the right still harnessed to the broken cart., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.267]., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 15 - The finish [P.2017.95.268]
Depicts a scene during the "Boston Massacre" of March 5th, 1770 in which an officer signals seven British soldiers to fire into a mob of protesting colonists. The wounded lie on the ground or are carried away by the crowd. A woman in a shawl observes the carnage. Eighteen lines of verse criticizing the actions of the British and a list of colonists killed or injured appear below the image: "Saml Gray, Saml Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patk Carr (killed) and it is noted that there were "Six wounded; two of them (Christr Monk & John Clark) Mortally." Crispus Attucks, included in the list of colonists but not transparently depicted, was a free man, sailor, and the alleged leader of the crowd who was the first colonist shot and killed., Title from item., Most well-known of Paul Revere's prints, and a nearly identical copy of a print entitled "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre" by Henry Pelham who accused Revere of piratism., Facsimile based on the original by Revere., Inscribed: Copy Right Secured., One of the prints originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Massachusetts. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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., Revere was a Boston silversmith, engraver, and cartoonist, most known for his patriotic activities during the American Revolution.
Creator
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, artist
Date
March 5, 1832
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1770-1 [1884.F.25; 5738.F.8]
