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Abbé Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non: Le Docteur Francklin Couronne par la Liberte (Allegorical Engraving of Benjamin Franklin being Crowned by Lady Liberty, with Globe showing America)
Title: Le Docteur Francklin Couronne par la Liberte (Allegorical Engraving of Benjamin Franklin being Crowned by Lady Liberty, with Globe showing America) Map Maker: Abbé Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non
Description: Interesting engraving showing a bust of Franklin (that by Caffieri) surmounting a globe with the continent of America visible; bundled fasces lie at the bottom, while the figure of Liberty, a woman in billowing robes, holding aloft two olive-leaf wreaths, approaches from the clouds to crown Franklin. At the top, in rays of light, is a liberty cap on a pole. From a series of 8 views of the 'Moulin Joli', etched by Abbé Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1730 - 1792) after Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781). Saint-Non was an amateur etcher and aquatinter, the patron of Fragonard and Robert; he sponsored the 'Voyage Pittoresque de Naples et de Sicile' of 1781-6. References: Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture, pp.284-286.
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