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PAUL REVERE | BROADSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE BLOODY MASSACRE (BRIGHAM PLATE 16)

Auction Closed

January 26, 08:38 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PAUL REVERE

1735 - 1818

BROADSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE BLOODY MASSACRE (BRIGHAM PLATE 16)


Hand-colored engraving, 1770, the second and final state, printed from the original plate and published by Edes & Gill, Boston, late March, 1770, on laid paper, framed 

This is one of only two known impressions of the broadside. The other example, which is the complete sheet, is in the collection of the New York Historical Society. 

image: 226 by 232 mm 8⅞ by 9⅛ in

sheet: 241 by 233 mm 9½ by 9⅛ in