Allegorical print: "Eripuit Coelo Fulmen Sceptrumque Tirannis / Au GENIE De FRANKLIN", 1778
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Exhibitions
"In Pursuit of Genius : Jean-Antoine Houdon and the Sculpted Portraits of Penjamin Franklin," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 5/13/06 - 7/30/06. No catalogue.
Related Publications

Schiff, Stacy, A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, (New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2005) Included among the illustrations following page 100 of the text.

Sellers, Charles Coleman, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture (New Haven: Yale University, 1962) Pp. 286 - 289, Pl. 33.

Provenance
Copies of this print are to be found in many public and private collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection.
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