Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janv. 1706. [engraving]

Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janv. 1706. [engraving]

Paris 1778

1 print ; 31 x 21 cm. on sheet 44 x 31 cm.

P&E L1982.1.116.6

Full bust, to the left. Oval with inner shadow border 2/16 and outer framelike border 8/16 within a shaded rectangle. The oval sits on a pedestal with the title on the top edge. Below the pedestal top, is a framed tablet on which the following poem appears: Honneur du nouveau monde et de l'humanite, Ce Sage amiable et vrai les guide et les eclaire; Comme un autre Mentor, il cache a l'oeil vulgaire, Sous les traits d'un mortel, une devinite. Par M. Feutry. Line.
Cresswell cites this as the finest of the Franklin portraits and probably the most reproduced.
Digitized image available, see URL

Cresswell, Donald H., The American Revolution in drawings and prints, 63

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