Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770
Revere's print of the shooting in King Street, published within three weeks and copied from a drawing by Henry Pelham, who accused him of theft. It shows an officer ordering a volley into an unarmed crowd, which is not what the trial found — and it sold very well.
Revere was a silversmith, an engraver and an exceptionally effective propagandist, and the ride of April 1775 was one errand in a courier network he had been running for years. The famous version of that night comes from Longfellow, writing in 1860 with a civil war coming and a use for a lone patriot on a horse. The men who actually carried the warning were several, at least one was caught, and the plan assumed as much. The impression here is in the National Gallery of Art. See the real story behind 'one if by land, two if by sea'.
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