Detail View: JCB Political Cartoons: A NEW METHOD OF MACARONY MAKING, AS PRACTICED AT BOSTON. [BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISEMAN, OR TARRING AND FEATHERING]

Accession number: 
31454
Title: 
A NEW METHOD OF MACARONY MAKING, AS PRACTICED AT BOSTON. [BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISEMAN, OR TARRING AND FEATHERING]
Place: 
[Boston]
Publisher: 
Copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London, 1774.
Date: 
[ca. 1830]
Image technique: 
Lithograph
Image dimensions: 
31 x 26.1 cm. (image)
Narrative description: 
Bostonians tarring and feathering John Malcomb, the British Commissioner of Customs. Images include: Sons of Liberty; gallows with severed rope.
References: 
Cf. BM 5232a1; cf. Cresswell, American Revolution, 668
Notes: 
Lithograph copy of mezzotint first published in 1774.
Subject: 
North Administration (January 1770-March 1782). Tension between Britain and the American colonies.
Normalized date: 
1830