Apr 13, 2023 - Sale 2633

Sale 2633 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.) W.O. Geller, engraver; after Baron Jolly. [Franklin's Reception at the Court of France, 1778.] Lightly hand-colored mezzotint engraving, 32 1/2 x 46 inches, signed in pencil by the engraver in lower margin; 2 1/2-inch repaired closed tear in left margin, edge wear in a couple of spots, light mat toning, mount remnants in upper margin. [Philadelphia]: William Jay et al., 1853
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Proof before letters, signed by the engraver. Depicts the elaborate March 1778 reception at Versailles for the plainly-dressed Benjamin Franklin in the after the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI are seated at right. An attractive proof of a popular subject.

Provenance: in a circa 1930s frame by Mauk-Murray Studios of Providence, RI when acquired by the consignor in Rhode Island in the early 1980s.