U.S. History Images. Mission US. Boston Massacre. When Paul Revere first began selling his color prints of "The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street" in Boston, he was doing what any like-minded patriot with his talents in 1770 would have done.
Only, Paul Revere did it faster and more expeditiously than anyone else, including two other artist-engravers who also issued prints of the Massacre that year. Twenty-one days before — on the night of March 5, 1770 — five men had been shot to death in Boston town by British soldiers. Enlargement of Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre. Boston Massacre. Brain Pop. The Civil War in Art : Teaching & Learning Through Chicago Collections.
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