Revolution to republic in prints and drawings

 

The New York Public Library’s “From Revolution to Republic in Prints and Drawings” exhibition runs through July 7.

There you can see “An Exact View of the Late Battle of Charlestown, June 17, 1775,” contemplate “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street” (above), enjoy the political cartoons of the day, and gaze at portraits of men in wigs.


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