tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post6948848878771006751..comments2024-03-21T21:53:01.837-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Confusion over Henry Pelham’s Massacre ImageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-73326015349680997962011-08-26T10:18:55.704-05:002011-08-26T10:18:55.704-05:00I’m no expert on dating prints, but I know that a ...I’m no expert on dating prints, but I know that a lot of Revolutionary-era images have been reprinted over the centuries, using various technologies. Some prints of Revere’s Massacre engraving are well over a hundred years old, but not from the original run.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-36952291860817199262011-08-25T22:33:53.755-05:002011-08-25T22:33:53.755-05:00i just saw the pelham version framed in an antique...i just saw the pelham version framed in an antique shop.it was beautiful.how could i tell how old it is and its value?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-42784160571538999432010-03-01T16:14:43.569-05:002010-03-01T16:14:43.569-05:00I don’t know if Champney’s painting survives, or w...I don’t know if Champney’s painting survives, or was meant to. <br /><br />Obviously, the print was made for mass consumption. As a color print, and not a small one, it was probably meant for display on its own. All of which means that in 1856 the manufacturer saw a potential market for that image. <br /><br />Champney and Bufford might have been motivated by politics to make the print. But more important to its actual manufacture is that their printer thought there were enough Americans with money motivated to buy a copy.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-56865916765723676812010-03-01T14:38:21.946-05:002010-03-01T14:38:21.946-05:00I'm wondering several things about the Champne...I'm wondering several things about the Champney/Bufford image. There are other contemporaneous images of the Massacre (some showing Attucks, some not) that appear in school books, other books like Nell's \Colored Patriots of the Revolution\, or broadsides advertising Nell's Attucks Day celebrations. But the Champney image seems unique in *not* being published in a book. Why was it created? Were both these men active abolitionists? Was the painting commissioned? And does the painting still exist, and if so, where?Mitch Kachunnoreply@blogger.com