Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) J.H. Bufford, lithographer. Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770. Chromolithograph, 20 x 25 inches; several tears in margin, one extending an inch into the image, laid down on modern heavy paper. Boston: Thomas A. Arms, 1856
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A dramatic depiction of the Boston Massacre. Crispus Attucks is rightfully depicted as the central figure, apparently already having suffered his mortal wound but grasping the bayonet of a redcoat as he falls. William Champney was the artist.