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Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis / peint par Madame Filleul ; gravé par Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi. – Antique Print

Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis / peint par Madame Filleul ; gravé par Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi. — antique engraving
Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis / peint par Madame Filleul ; gravé par Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi.. Antique engraving from the Presidents collection.

(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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Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis / peint par Madame Filleul ; gravé par Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis / peint par Madame Filleul ; gravé par Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi.

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Few portraits of Benjamin Franklin carry a motto as pointed as this one, *eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que tyrannis*, which translates roughly as "he snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants." The line comes from a couplet by the French statesman Turgot and cast Franklin as both a man of science and a champion of liberty. Painted by Madame Filleul and engraved by Cahtelin, Graveur du Roi, the print was issued in Paris around 1780, while Franklin was serving as American envoy to France.

Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesParis : Chez M. Boquet rüe Comtesse d'Artois vis-à-vis celle Mauconseuil, [ca. 1780]
SubjectsFranklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,082 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122601

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