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Paul Revere

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Paul Revere was an American printmaker and engraver whose copper plates and woodcuts documented colonial life and Revolutionary politics with direct visual clarity. His most iconic work, the engraving of the Boston Massacre (1770), became a potent propaganda tool that shaped public sentiment during the Revolution. Working primarily in line engraving and etching, Revere combined technical skill with urgent political purpose, creating images that circulated widely as broadsides and prints. His practice exemplified the role of printmaking as a democratic medium in eighteenth-century America.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 50% · Updated 6d ago

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Artworks (16)

Masonic Certificate

1796 · engraving on wove paper, printed by Herbert Pasternack in 1954

plate: 34.8 x 25.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 55.9 x 39 cm (22 x 15 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Milk Pot

1784 · Silver

15.9 × 6.4 × 12.4 cm (6 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 4 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Teapot

1782 · silver, wood, and metal

overall: 15.2 × 28.9 × 8.9 cm (6 × 11 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Tablespoon

1780 · silver

Overall: 20 x 4.4 cm (7 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Mitred Minuet

1774 · engraving on wove paper mounted to wove paper

sheet: 10.8 × 16.99 cm (4 1/4 × 6 11/16 in.) support: 13.97 × 20 cm (5 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Boston Massacre

1770 · Wood engraving, with hand coloring, on tan laid paper

Image: 20.2 × 21.9 cm (8 × 8 5/8 in.); Block: 26.2 × 23 cm (10 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 27.6 × 24 cm (10 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Obelisk under the Liberty Tree, Boston

1766 · engraving on wove paper, printed by Ed. O'Brien in 1973

National Gallery of Art

Buried with Him by Baptism

1760 · engraving on laid paper

image: 15.72 × 10.64 cm (6 3/16 × 4 3/16 in.) sheet: 17.78 × 12.54 cm (7 × 4 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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