The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

David Claypoole Johnston American

Printer Pendleton's Lithography American

1830

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Title: The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering
Artist: David Claypoole Johnston (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1799–1865 Dorchester, Massachusetts)
Printer: Pendleton's Lithography (American, active 1825–36) Boston
Date: 1830
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: image: 12 1/16 x 10 1/8 in. (30.6 x 25.7 cm)
sheet: 13 15/16 x 11 in. (35.4 x 28 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Object Number: 24.90.1394
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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