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Creator Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801 etcher.
Title Dr. Franklin erhalt, als Gesandter des Americanischen Frey Staats, seine erste Audienz in Frankreich, zu Versailles. am 20ten Martz 1778. [graphic].
Title Franklin's reception at the French court in Versailles
Publisher [Leipzig]: Haude and Spener von Berlin]
Date [1783]
Physical Description 1 print: etching; 10 x 6 cm. (2.5 x 4 in.)
Description Franklin bows before the French King Louis XVI.
Is referenced by Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 277.
Notes Inscribed upper left corner: S. 121.
Plate 8 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D).
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Portraits.
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 -- Portraits.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation.
Genre Etchings -- 1780-1790.
Book illustrations -- 1780-1790.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.8]
Accession number P.8935.8