B. Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. Born at Boston in New England, Jan. 6th 1706. Died at Philadelphia, April 17, 1790.

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Lettered around the top and bottom of the oval portrait are the words: “No. V] Massachusetts Magazine [Vol. II.” [AND:] “Eripuit cælo flume; sceptrumque Tyrannis.” [“He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants.”] Based upon the portrait made by the royal Manufacture Nationale at Sèvres between 1778 to 1779.

Description: B. Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. Born at Boston in New England, Jan. 6th 1706. Died at Philadelphia, April 17, 1790.

[Boston, 1790]. Platemark: trimmed at lower left, 6¾ x 4½ inches. Sheet size: 8¼ x 5 inches. Laid paper; pale foxing to margins.

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For the Sèvres medallions, etc., Cf. Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture, 365 and Plates 12 and 14. Stauffer 1369. Holden Sale 1422. Not in Weitenkampf.

Price: $75.00

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