Graphic Arts
The graphic arts department houses five major collections that
are related in medium or format, if not in subject matter: prints (engravings and lithographs),
photographs, broadsides and ephemera, maps, and sheet music.
In addition, oil paintings, furniture, and other artifacts belonging
to the Society are considered part of this collection. Unless
otherwise noted, collections are not
catalogued or indexed; the collections housed in the department are
arranged by type or by subject.
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Paul Revere's The Bloody Massacre is the best-known American
print. A
contemporary image of the seminal event that led to the American
Revolution, this print inflamed patriotic passions in Boston in 1770.
AAS
has an almost complete collection of Revere's engravings.
Lizzie Nichols and Eillen Dickinson, aged 12 years; [Mara?] Nichols,
6
years; Lulu Dickinson, 3 years; and Lisa Merithieu, age 3. ca. 1857.
Quarter plate ambrotype
Silhouette tentatively identified as a depiction of Phillis Wheatley
(1753-1784)
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