A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practiced at Boston in North America.
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practiced at Boston in North America.
London: Carrington Bowles, 12 October 1774
Hand-colored mezzotint, 14¾ x 11 inches; moderate toning and dampstaining, formerly mounted on stretchers, tipped at top edge to modern mat.
John Malcolm (1723-1788) was a Loyalist custom agent in Portsmouth, NH, tasked with enforcing the despised Tea Act. For this, he was tarred and feathered for the first time in November 1773. Two months later, he was in Boston, where his previous history was well known. When he was spotted threatening a boy with his cane, a local patriot named George Hewes mocked Malcolm for having been tarred and feathered. Malcolm then knocked Hewes out with his cane. He was soon seized by a patriot mob, who gave him his second tarring and feathering, threatened to hang him, and forced him to drink hot tea. Malcolm soon fled to England, where he received a military commission in a company of invalids for his troubles.
The incident sparked outrage in England, including this satirical print sometimes credited to Francis Edward Adams. Beneath the title is a four-verse poem: "For the Custom House Officers landing the Tea / They Tarr'd him, and Feather'd him, just as you see / And they drench'd him so well both behind and before / That he begg'd for God's sake they would drench him no more."
Cresswell 668.
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practiced at Boston in North America.
London: Carrington Bowles, 12 October 1774
Hand-colored mezzotint, 14¾ x 11 inches; moderate toning and dampstaining, formerly mounted on stretchers, tipped at top edge to modern mat.
John Malcolm (1723-1788) was a Loyalist custom agent in Portsmouth, NH, tasked with enforcing the despised Tea Act. For this, he was tarred and feathered for the first time in November 1773. Two months later, he was in Boston, where his previous history was well known. When he was spotted threatening a boy with his cane, a local patriot named George Hewes mocked Malcolm for having been tarred and feathered. Malcolm then knocked Hewes out with his cane. He was soon seized by a patriot mob, who gave him his second tarring and feathering, threatened to hang him, and forced him to drink hot tea. Malcolm soon fled to England, where he received a military commission in a company of invalids for his troubles.
The incident sparked outrage in England, including this satirical print sometimes credited to Francis Edward Adams. Beneath the title is a four-verse poem: "For the Custom House Officers landing the Tea / They Tarr'd him, and Feather'd him, just as you see / And they drench'd him so well both behind and before / That he begg'd for God's sake they would drench him no more."
Cresswell 668.
