ID 627675
Lot 185 | Aiding the family of a Revoultionary War Veteran
Valeur estimée
$ 10 000 – 15 000
One page, 160 x 203mm (marginal tears at top margin do not affect text). Countersigned by John NICHOLSON. Mounted to a mat and framed with 3 contemporary engravings of Franklin (also mounted) [including:] Juste CHEVILLET, Engraver, after Joseph Duplessis, Benjamin Franklin Né Boston dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janv. 1706. Paris, 1778. Copperplate engraving, 265 x 177mm (plate); [Louis Jacques CATHELIN, after Anne-Rosalie Filleul], Benjamin Franklin Né à Boston le 17 Janvier 1706. Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrum que Tryannis. [Paris: M. Bocquiet, n.d.]. 320 x 205mm (sheet, trimmed); [after Charles-Amédée-Philippe Vanloo. Francklin [sic]. Paris: Marie François Drohin, c. 1790]. 240 x 205mm (trimmed to plate).
Franklin approves a payment to the family of a deceased Revolutionary War veteran. The warrant, issued to “The Widow and Children of Moses Hamer late private of the 2nd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line… the sum of Nineteen Shillings and ten pence being one year’s interest on his deprecation certificate…” The 2nd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line served through much of the war including the Battles of Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, Springfield and Yorktown.
| Artiste: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Crayon |
| Artiste: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Crayon |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |
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| Téléphone | +44 (0)20 7839 9060 | |
| Commission | see on Website | |
| Conditions d'utilisation | Conditions d'utilisation |




















