Benjamin Franklin, Ministre plenipotentiaire a la Cour de France pour la Republique des Provinces unies de le'Amerique Septentrionale.

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• ARTIST: Anne Rosalie Filleul

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving.

  DATE: 1780.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 10 9/16 x 8" (27 x 20.4 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: A fine emblematical portrait of Benjamin Franklin.<br><br> The Greek philosopher Diogenes (left) supports the bust portrait of Franklin in a carved oval frame, the portrait being by Anne Rosalie Filleul, wearing a fur-trimmed robe over a loose shirt. Diogenes holds out his lantern; he supports the portrait on a stone block inscribed "Stupete gentes! Reperit vivum Diogenes"; behind him is a spear on whose point is a liberty cap. Along the lower edge are turnips and a cabbage, symbols of frugality, a staff, a broken yoke, an emblem of the power of England in America, an eagle from whose claws spring thunderbolts over a map of "Ameriq. Septent" In the sky is a bird which has been tethered by a cord flying away, symbolizing liberty.<br><br> A complex and rather handsome portrait of this great American Founding Father.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Nicely framed in a black & sanded spandrel molding. Overall framed size 18.5 x 15 inches.

• CONDITION: Good condition save for some water-dampness damage in the upper right. Professionally conserved.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits , Famous People