The Bostonian's paying the excise-man, or tarring & feathering
Title: The Bostonian's paying the excise-man, or tarring & feathering
Creator(s): Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher
Date Created/Published: London : Printed for Robt. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street as the Act directs, 1774 Octr. 31.
Summary: Print shows five men forcing a tarred and feathered customs officer to drink from a teapot, a bucket and a liberty cap are on the ground at his feet. They stand beneath the 'Liberty Tree' from which a rope with a noose hangs; in the background, shadowy figures on a ship dump tea overboard.
Notes:
Title from item.
Plate I.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5232
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 670.
Subjects:
Tarring & feathering--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780.
Customs employees--Massachusetts--Boston--1770-1780.
Tea--Massachusetts--1770-1780.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1770-1780.
Mezzotints--British--1770-1780.
Bookmark /2004673302/
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