Dr. Franklin - coelis eripuit fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis / J. Norman sc. – Vintage Print
![Dr. Franklin - coelis eripuit fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis / J. Norman sc., [1784] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/29/297f22ab3a07-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Dr. Franklin - coelis eripuit fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis / J. Norman sc. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Dr. Franklin - coelis eripuit fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis / J. Norman sc.
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Benjamin Franklin appears here in an engraved frontispiece that the Boston magazine ran in its January 1784 issue, engraved by J. Norman after a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Cochin. The Latin motto beneath the title, "Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis" ("He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants"), was a line on Franklin's achievements that circulated widely in the 1770s and 1780s. Printed in Boston while Franklin was serving as a diplomat in France, the portrait shows how American readers were celebrating him as a symbol of both scientific learning and the Revolution.
| Created / published | [1784] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1780-1790.Periodical illustrations 1780-1790.Frontispieces 1780-1790.Intaglio prints 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. After portrait by Cochin. Illus. from: The Boston magazine. Boston, Mass. : Norman & White, 1784 January, frontispiece. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 72. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,222 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122344 |
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