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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Political Cartoons
Record
Accession number:
32224
Title:
A NEW METHOD OF MACARONY MAKING, AS PRACTICED AT BOSTON. [BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISEMAN, OR TARRING AND FEATHERING]
Place:
London
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, no. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard. Publish'd as the Act directs
Date:
1774. Oct. 12th
Image technique:
Mezzotint
Image dimensions:
35.4 x 25.5 cm. (trimmed)
Narrative description:
Bostonians tarring and feathering John Malcomb, the British Commissioner of Customs. Includes poetry. Images include: Sons of Liberty; gallows with a severed rope.
References:
Cf. BM 5232a; cf. Cresswell, American Revolution, 668
Notes:
4-line verse below image.
Subject:
North Administration (January 1770-March 1782). Tension between Britain and the American colonies.
Normalized date:
1774

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A NEW METHOD OF MACARONY MAKING, AS PRACTICED AT BOSTON. [BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISEMAN, OR TARRING AND FEATHERING]