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Line engraving, 1787
Height 13.0, sub height 11.3, width 6.4, diameter 1.9 cm

  

Boglewood: 3020
Hart:  820

 

 

 

 

Image not available 
Similar to Boglewood 822 and 823
Description (Hart):
Bust, to left, profile.  Circular medallion, inscribed "Genl. Geo. Washington", upon a pedestal, to right, surmounted with war emblems.  A corresponding pedestal, to left, bears a medallion of Franklin, inscribed "Docr. Benn. Franklin"..  Between the two is a figure of America. and above, an arch.

 

 


  

Source image:
No identified source.
 

Text:
Frontispiece / America trampling on oppression [In respective medallions:  Doctr. Benn. Franklin / Genl. Geo. Washington]
 

Version I:  As described. 

Published in:  W. D. Cooper, The History of North America (London, 1787). 

Notes: This engraving is one of four with substantially similar images created for editions of the Rev. Cooper's book published in 1787, 1789, 1793 and 1795.  See also Boglewood 3021, 3022 and 3023.

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