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Franklin : trop longtemps son génie enchaîna le tonnerre, vous tyrans, frémissez il regâgne les cieux, il va rendre à la foudre et sa force et ses feux, pour punir désormais les crimes de la terre
Uniform Title
Benjamin Franklin portrait after Cochin (Engraving : 1790)
Title
Franklin : trop longtemps son génie enchaîna le tonnerre, vous tyrans, frémissez il regâgne les cieux, il va rendre à la foudre et sa force et ses feux, pour punir désormais les crimes de la terre.
Publication
Paris : Made. Bergmy Mde.d'estampes de S.A.S. la princesse Lamballe, rue du Coq S. Honoré, [1790]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; oval 15.1 x 9.0 cm, plate mark 21.3 x 14.0 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Box 2019 95: On sheet 29.7 x 21.8 cm. On verso, some manuscript notes. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
BEIN BrSides Box 2019 98: Colored; on sheet 15.7 x 9.6 cm. Window mounted on sheet 27.3 x 19.6 cm. On verso, stamped: E.B.H. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from caption.
After drawing by Cochin.
Summary
Print shows Benjamin Franklin in bust portrait to right, head toward center, eyes centered; with tufted fur cap, embroidered fur-trimmed coat, and ruffled shirt front. Oval (10.3 x 8.3 cm) portrait within frame of striped rectangle with title tablet below.
Variant and related titles
Benjamin Franklin
Format
Images
Language
French
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2019
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Cochin, 33
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Genre/Form
Portraits.
Engravings.
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