Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence

the avenue below hushed by the cathedral's long ecclesiastical shadow

his burin tracing the quiet revolution by which American books finally learned to illustrate themselves

and adobe missions baking under a turquoise sky

Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh The Declaration of IndependenceBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,