![[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. D. Benjamin Fraenklin, Grand Commissaire plenipotentiare du Congress d'Amerique en France, né à Boston 1706 en 17 Janvier. Mezzotint engraving by Thomas Hart after CHARLES NICOLAS COCHIN II (1715-1798), "Chev. De l'ordre du Roi 1777." Se vend á Londres chez Thom Hart [ca. 1778].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/NYR/2011_NYR_02514_0161_000(franklin_benjamin_d_benjamin_fraenklin_grand_commissaire_plenipotentia083128).jpg?w=1)
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[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. D. Benjamin Fraenklin, Grand Commissaire plenipotentiare du Congress d'Amerique en France, né à Boston 1706 en 17 Janvier. Mezzotint engraving by Thomas Hart after CHARLES NICOLAS COCHIN II (1715-1798), "Chev. De l'ordre du Roi 1777." Se vend á Londres chez Thom Hart [ca. 1778].
Folio (10½ x 7½ in). Mezzotint on laid paper. Matted and framed. Oval enclosure in a rectangle, showing a three-quarter image of a be-spectacled Franklin, gazing at the viewer, wearing his signature fur hat, holding a paper or document in his left hand. A very rare portrait engraving, in superb condition. See Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture, pp. 227-230.
Folio (10½ x 7½ in). Mezzotint on laid paper. Matted and framed. Oval enclosure in a rectangle, showing a three-quarter image of a be-spectacled Franklin, gazing at the viewer, wearing his signature fur hat, holding a paper or document in his left hand. A very rare portrait engraving, in superb condition. See Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture, pp. 227-230.