Print from steel engraving titled „Franklin“.

Artist Vernier.

Engraved by Delaistre.

Notes: Lemaitre dir. 54.

Benjamin Franklin FRS (January 17, 1706 [January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American".A world-renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.

Approx. image size 8, 3 x 8, 7/22, 2 x 14, 1 cm.

Condition: good.