The Bostonians Paying the Excise - Man or Tarring & Feathering

David Claypoole Johnston, American, 1799 - 1865

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1830

Hand colored lithograph on wove paper

Sight: 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)

Sight: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PR.974.162

Publisher

Pendleton and Company, Boston

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left to right: Copied on stone by D.C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774 Lith of Pendleton, Boston, 1830

Exhibition History

American Intellectual and Cultural History Through the Civil War, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, History 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 10-September 6, 1992.

Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 21, 1976.

Provenance

John Wilmerding; sold to present collection, 1974.

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