Boston Tea Party illustrated by H.M. McVickar

McVickar, H. W. (Harry Whitney), 1860-1905 was an American illustrator.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.

The Boston tea party, December 1773 by Harry Whitney McVickar was published in 1882. 

The title page depicts a British soldier hiding under an umbrella, a steaming cup of tea and one of the Sons of Liberty.