AN UNDRECORDED COLONIAL CRIME BROADSIDE

COUNTERFEITING – The Town of Boston, Where Seth Hudson and Joshua How were . . . Set in the Pillory One Hour, to be Whip'd Twenty Stripes / H--ds--n's Speech from the Pillory. [Boston, 1762?].

An unrecorded, illustrated crime broadside memorializing the punishment of Seth Hudson and Joshua How for counterfeiting, featuring a satirical poem billed as "H--df--n's Speech From the Pillory" The top panel describes the scene with "a vast Number of Spectators to see the Punishment to these Criminals in the Pillory, and at the Whipping-Post…" While "satirical witty Verse," in the form of the "Speech" was hoped to "afford a few humbling Consideration sot those concealed Criminals, who are conscious of being comparatively guilty of Crimes similar to those for which Hudson and How justly suffer." The broadside includes a pair of woodcuts, one of James Turner's 1744 view of Boston, and an image of a seated man speaking to a pair of children (ostensibly offering counsel on the perils of counterfeiting). Not in Evans, Ford, or Winslow.

Broadside. 8 1/2 x 13 1/4 in (217 x 335 mm). (Light toning to creases, irregular bottom margin.) Framed.