December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
"Dartmoor Prison, Drawn by Glover Broughton. 1815." Color lithograph by Glover Broughton, Published by Tappan and Bradford, Boston,1853. 18 x 24.25 inches (view) within matted, glazed frame (not examined outside of frame, but apparently not laid down). Good original coloring with light toning to the paper. Aerial schematic plan of the English naval prison with a central scene depicting the chaos of 6 April 1815 when militia guards fired upon a gathering of unarmed American sailors protesting their continued captivity after peace had been declared. The British commander had interpreted the protest as an attempted prison breakout and ordered his men to open fire, killing and wounding many of the sailors, leading the event to be remembered as the Dartmoor Massacre. Yankee mariner Glover Broughton of Marblehead, Massachusetts was an eyewitness to the event and later had this lithograph published from his original drawing. $1350.00