(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) [Jean Claude Richard abbé Saint Non] Le

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Sale 2687 - Lot 143

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(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.) [Jean Claude Richard, abbé Saint Non.] Le Docteur Francklin couronné par la Liberté. Aquatint, 21¼ x 13¾ inches; minor edge wear; untrimmed with very large margins. [France], [1779]

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An allegorical depiction of Franklin being crowned by Liberty, as he sits by a globe and a scroll with the constitution of Pennsylvania. It was described in the Pennsylvania Gazette of 31 March 1779. The source is usually credited to a sketch by Jean Honoré Fragonard. Not often seen untrimmed. Talbott, "Franklin in Search of a Better World," page 9.

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