Print. Copied from an engraving by Henry Pelham; most likely hand-colored by Christian Remick.
This is Revere’s famous print of the Boston Massacre,
which appeared on or about 28 March 1770. Its full title is The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment.
But Adams did not just read books. He battled them. The casual presumption that there is some kind of rough correlation between the books in the library of any prominent historical figure and the person’s cast of mind would encounter catastrophe with Adams, because he tended to buy and read book with which he profoundly disagreed. Then, as he read, he recorded in the margins and at the bottom of the pages his usually hostile opinions of the arguments and authors.... [T]he Adams marginalia constitute evidence more revealing of his convictions about political theory than any of his official publications.