Benjamin Franklin
From the original by Jean Baptiste Greuze, in theBoston Public Library. It was painted for BenjaminFranklin as a gift to Richard Oswald, the Englishcommissioner associated with him in the peace negotiationsof 1782. Gardner Brewer of Boston bought the paintingin 1872 and presented it to the Library.Autograph from the Declaration of Independence.The vignette of Independence Hall is after a drawingin the possession of the American Bank Note Co., Philadelphia.COUNT VERGENNESFrom the frontispiece to
...Doniol, "Histoire de la Participation de laFrance à l'Establissement des Etats-Unis d'Amérique," Paris, 1886, 5vols., 4to. vol. i.; an engraving by Vangelisti, from the originalpainting by Antoine Francois Callet.Autograph from same book.LORD HILLSBOROUGH (Born Wills Hill; afterwards Marquis of Downshire)From a painting by J. Rising, owned by Lord Salisbury.Autograph from MS. collection in the New York Public Library, Lenox Building.PAUL JONESFrom the original portrait by C. W. Peale in IndependenceHall.Autograph from MS. collection in Library of Boston Athenæum.SEA-FIGHT BETWEEN THE SERAPIS AND BON HOMME RICHARDOff Flamborough Head, September 3, 1779. Pau l......... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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